"leftwise" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From left + -wise.",
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          "ref": "1890, G. C. Macaulay, The History of Herodotus, translated into English:",
          "text": "and doing so they say that they do it themselves rightwise and the Hellenes leftwise.",
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        {
          "ref": "2004, Christian P. Robert, George Casella, Monte Carlo statistical methods, page 336:",
          "text": "Similarly, his \"doubling procedure\" consists in the same random starting interval […] whose length is doubled (leftwise or rightwise at random) recursively till both ends are outside the slice.",
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        "By a leftward path; leftwards, leftwardly; anticlockwise, counterclockwise."
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          "anticlockwise",
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          "counterclockwise",
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        "(rare) By a leftward path; leftwards, leftwardly; anticlockwise, counterclockwise."
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  "word": "leftwise"
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  "etymology_text": "From left + -wise.",
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          "ref": "2006, Arne Røkkum, Nature, ritual, and society in Japan's Ryukyu Islands, page 151:",
          "text": "The leftwise action aims at what drifts out of the nunka domain of the nefarious. Similarly for mortuary arrangements, what is leftwise is more momentous than what is rightwise.",
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        "Leftward, on the left side."
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        "(rare) Leftward, on the left side."
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        {
          "word": "rightwise"
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  "etymology_text": "From left + -wise.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Christian P. Robert, George Casella, Monte Carlo statistical methods, page 336:",
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        "By a leftward path; leftwards, leftwardly; anticlockwise, counterclockwise."
      ],
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          "anticlockwise",
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        "(rare) By a leftward path; leftwards, leftwardly; anticlockwise, counterclockwise."
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  "etymology_text": "From left + -wise.",
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      ],
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        "Leftward, on the left side."
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        "(rare) Leftward, on the left side."
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