2. Noun. A contradiction or answer to put off an engagement; a countermand. ¹
3. Noun. A section of commentary at the end of a book. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Backword
1. a retort [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backword
Literary usage of Backword
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1867)
"backword, n. an answer to put off an Bad, pp of To bid, invited. Bad, adj.
sick, ill. [duce. engagement. Badger, n. a travelling buyer-up of pro- Badger, ..."
2. The Quarrel Between the Earl of Manchester and Oliver Cromwell: An Episode by David Masson, John Bruce (1875)
"... backword in the service. il is good reason to conçoive that the Earl's backword-
win out of designe to protract the warr. ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1894)
"... perhaps, from before backword more rapidly. A slit is thus formed, which at
first opens into the archenteron along its whole length but soon closes, ..."
4. Viagens ethnographicas sul americanas: Argentina by Charmian London, Online Archive of California, Simoens da Silva (1921)
"... The Amateur Navigator Beche de Mer English Cruising in the Solomons The Amateur
MD backword 29—SOUTH SEA TALES, The Macmillan Company, October, 1911. ..."
5. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"Also, a current of water from the inland, which clears off the deposit of sand
and silt left by the action of the sea. backword. An answer to put off an ..."
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