"outwards" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "German auswärts",
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English outwardes, from Old English ūtweardes; equivalent to outward + -s or out + -wards. Cognate with German auswärts.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more outwards",
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        "superlative"
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          "text": "Light falling on them is not reflected outwards.",
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        "From the interior toward the exterior; in an outward direction."
      ],
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          "_dis1": "98 2",
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          "roman": "navǎn",
          "sense": "in an outward direction",
          "word": "навън"
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          "sense": "in an outward direction",
          "word": "на́надвор"
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          "sense": "in an outward direction",
          "word": "utover"
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          "text": "Wo be to you scrybes, and pharises ypocrites, for ye are lyke unto paynted tombes which appere beautyfull outwardes: but are within full off deed mens bones and of all fylthynes.",
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        "Outwardly; (merely) on the surface."
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        "(obsolete) Outwardly; (merely) on the surface."
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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      "form": "more outwards",
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          "text": "Light falling on them is not reflected outwards.",
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        "(obsolete) Outwardly; (merely) on the surface."
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    {
      "word": "outward"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "navǎn",
      "sense": "in an outward direction",
      "word": "навън"
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      "word": "на́надвор"
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