2. Adjective. Moving toward a goal, or which affects movement theretoward. ¹
3. Adjective. Somehow abstractly associated with a goal. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Goalward
1. toward a goal (a point-scoring area) [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Goalward
Literary usage of Goalward
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Sacred Literature by John Kitto, Henry Burgess, Benjamin Harris Cowper (1863)
"Applying the same method to the passage under consideration, we obtain a much
more vivid and simple rendering; " I press on goalward for the prize," etc. ..."
2. Corona and Coronet: Being a Narrative of the Amherst Eclipse Expedition to by Mabel Loomis Todd (1899)
"The track, supposedly about two feet wide, varied pleasantly in breadth, sometimes
more, sometimes less, each rail wandering goalward at its own sweet will. ..."
3. Reunion in Eternity by William Robertson Nicoll (1919)
"So swift thy growth, so true thy goalward bent. Thou, child and sage inextricably
blent, Must surely one day come to teach thy father in some heavenly tent. ..."
4. The Tragedies of Euripides in English Verse by Euripides (1896)
"Yea—even to weeping for my babes' high birth ! OLD MAN. Haply : yet goalward turn
I back thy speech.2 ELECTRA. Let her but come, and surely is she dead. ..."
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