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Rearward

adjective

Located in or toward the back or rear. Synonym: rear. "The rear door of the plane" , "On the rearward side"

Directed or moving toward the rear. Synonym: reverse. "A rearward movement"

adverb

At or to or toward the back or rear. Synonyms: back, backward, backwards, rearwards. "Tripped when he stepped backward" , "She looked rearward out the window of the car"

noun

Direction toward the rear.

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"Rearward" Quotes from Famous Books

... seemed a question as to which should loiter longest in the unfinished furrow. Now and then, the rush of the train gave a motionless goatherd, with his gaunt flock, an effect of comparative celerity to the rearward. The women riding ...

— Familiar Spanish Travels • W. D. Howells

... those days) might have promoted me speedily to the top of the tree; as, on the other hand, with how much loyalty of submission I acquiesced by anticipation in her award, supposing that she should plant me in the very rearward of her favour, as No. 199 1. Most truly I loved this beautiful and ingenuous girl; and, had it not been for the Bath mail, timing all courtships by post- office allowance, heaven only knows what might have come of it. People talk of being over head and ears ...

— The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc • Thomas de Quincey

... when attack receives temporary setback. If the attack receives a temporary setback and it is intended to strengthen and continue it, officers will make every effort to stop the rearward movement and will reestablish the firing line in a covered position as close as possible to the ...

— Manual of Military Training - Second, Revised Edition • James A. Moss

... grew tired of this, too, and moved to the rearward window. It looked upon a narrow lane, and a dead wall. Still, there was a chance of seeing some one pass, some stranger; whereas the windows which looked on the empty courtyard were no windows at ...

— In Kings' Byways • Stanley J. Weyman

... five or six-and-twenty perhaps, and was dressed in such a free and fly-away fashion, that the long ends of his loose red neckcloth were streaming out behind him quite as often as before; and the bunch of bright winter berries in the buttonhole of his velveteen coat was as visible to Mr Pinch's rearward observation, as if he had worn that garment wrong side foremost. He continued to sing with so much energy, that he did not hear the sound of wheels until it was close behind him; when he turned ...

— Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit • Charles Dickens

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