"kingward" meaning in All languages combined

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Adverb [English]

Etymology: From Middle English Kyng ward; equivalent to king + -ward. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|Kyng ward}} Middle English Kyng ward, {{suffix|en|king|ward}} king + -ward Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} kingward (not comparable)
  1. Alternative form of kingwards Tags: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Alternative form of: kingwards
    Sense id: en-kingward-en-adv-gk1WMxAd Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ward

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          "ref": "1660, Henry Oxinden, Charls Triumphant, &c., London, page 28",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1885 April 25, “Town Talk”, in Short Creek Republican, volume IV, number 20, Galena, Kan.",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1891 July 7, “Literature Makes for Human Brotherhood”, in The Indianapolis News, volume XXII, Indianapolis, Ind., page 5",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "1891 October 17, “What Fools These These Mortals Be”, in Caldwell Tribune, number 94, Caldwell, Ida.",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1660, Henry Oxinden, Charls Triumphant, &c., London, page 28",
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          "ref": "1891 July 7, “Literature Makes for Human Brotherhood”, in The Indianapolis News, volume XXII, Indianapolis, Ind., page 5",
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