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English
Etymology
From Middle English fortherward, forþerward, equivalent to further + -ward.
Adverb
furtherward (comparative more furtherward, superlative most furtherward)
- (rare, archaic or dialectal) Forward, onward.
1867, Edward Edwin Foot, The Original Poems of Edward Edwin Foot, page 177:And, furtherward, he turn'd and saw the lane
Which led from thence and thither to the cot; […]
1895, Francis Orpen Morris, A History of British Birds, volume 2, page 111:[…] and about the middle of August they again begin to flit furtherward to the sea coast.