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English
Etymology
From Middle English Kyng ward; equivalent to king + -ward.
Adverb
kingward (not comparable)
- Alternative form of kingwards
1660, Henry Oxinden, Charls Triumphant, &c., London, page 28:All ye that scruple to believe, untill / Your sight convince your Reason ’gainst your will, / Go see your King do things all sence above, / And tell me then if that your hearts don’t move / Kingward, and whether you not think that He / Participates much of Divinity.
1885 April 25, “Town Talk”, in Short Creek Republican, volume IV, number 20, Galena, Kan.:The K-K-koon shaft in their wrestle with a cranky pump and weak-kneed engine won the last fall, giving them two best in three, and they are again heading jack king[-]ward at a 2.40 gait.
1891 July 7, “Literature Makes for Human Brotherhood”, in The Indianapolis News, volume XXII, Indianapolis, Ind., page 5:It is not literature that speaks kingward, priestward, nobleward, systemward, formward; but it is literature which throws off all these things and issues as a winged creature from the shell of the past.
1891 October 17, “What Fools These These Mortals Be”, in Caldwell Tribune, number 94, Caldwell, Ida.:But our nabobs are buried at public expense; their widows are supported in royal style at the public treasury; our tax[-]payers are buried in pottersfield, and we are traveling kingward.