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English
Etymology
From other + -wards; compare otherward.
Adverb
otherwards
- Towards an other or another direction.
1902, Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus: A Fully Annotated Edition with an Introductory Essay on Thomas Carlyle, page 172:For in this Arch too, leading, as we humbly presume, far otherwards than that grand primeval one, the materials are to be fished-up from the weltering deep, and down from the simmering air, here one mass, there another, ...
1998, Margaret Chatterjee, Contemporary Indian Philosophy, Motilal Banarsidass Publishe, →ISBN, page 195:"Embodiment" suggests the thing directly before us, while "expression" has the unfortunate tendency . . . to direct our thoughts otherwards to feelings or ideas which are expressed.