"lifeward" meaning in English

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Adjective

Etymology: From life + -ward. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|life|ward}} life + -ward Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} lifeward (not comparable)
  1. Leading towards life. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-lifeward-en-adj-gM4jttpl Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ward, Pages with 1 entry Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 79 21 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ward: 100 0 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 100 0

Adverb

Etymology: From life + -ward. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|life|ward}} life + -ward Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} lifeward (not comparable)
  1. Towards life. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-lifeward-en-adv-bZWnWSg~
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          "ref": "1874 December 30, The Unitarian Review and Religious Magazine, volume 2, page 443",
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          "ref": "1894, The Encyclopaedia of Death and Life in the Spirit-world, page 292",
          "text": "In this condition of the system, the internal forces of organs are so perfectly balanced, that a trifling incident may start them lifeward, or deathward.",
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          "ref": "1919, F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise",
          "text": "The Egotist Becomes a Personage \"A fathom deep in sleep I lie With old desires, restrained before, To clamor lifeward with a cry, As dark flies out the greying door; And so in quest of creeds to share I seek assertive day again...",
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          "ref": "1825, Thomas Sharp, A Dissertation on the Pageants Or Dramatic Mysteries Anciently Performed at Coventry, by the Trading Companies of that City, page 224",
          "text": "Such a flood in earth shall be, / That every life that hath lifeward, / Beast and body with bone and blood, / They shall be stormed through stress of storm",
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          "ref": "1904, Thomas Troward, The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science",
          "text": "Therefore in every case the test is whether our particular intention is in this same lifeward direction: and if it is, then we may be absolutely certain that there is no intention on the part of the Universal Mind to thwart the intention of our own individual mind; we are dealing with a purely impersonal force, and it will no more oppose us by specific plans of its own than will steam or electricity.",
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          "text": "Your subconscious processes are always lifeward and constructive.",
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        },
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