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Definition of Towardly
1. a. Same as Toward,
Definition of Towardly
1. Adjective. Promising, propitious. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Towardly
1. favorable [adj] - See also: favorable
Lexicographical Neighbors of Towardly
Literary usage of Towardly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Old South Leaflets: Annual Series by Edwin D Mead (1889)
"... especially since for aptitude and innocence I have never found so towardly a
youth. Five or six years ago I caused him to be taught in languages, ..."
2. Annual Register (1796)
"... than the other twain, though he beareth him towardly. There, be fume, and
divers fome, ... towardly ..."
3. The Worth of Words by Ralcy Husted Bell (1903)
"towardly towardly did good service in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in
... wholesome, promising; as, a towardly young woman. Transmit TRANSMIT. ..."
4. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James (1902)
"... not that particular events are tempered more towardly to us by a superintending
providence, as a reward for our reliance, but that by cultivating the ..."
5. The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853)
"Ml men agreed in complimenting me, and applauding my good fortune in being' the
father of so towardly a son. I STOOD the other day, and beheld a father ..."
6. Publications by English Dialect Society (1881)
"... qv towardly, or Tow'dly, adj. and adv. promising; quiet; gentle; amenable;
... her towardly head." HALL, Sat. VI. 1. " From his first youth how tow'rdly ..."
7. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"Talk about one Temporary Where he dwelt He was towardly once Seasons why towardly
ones go back ago, one Temporary in your parts, who was a forward man in ..."
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