"witherward" meaning in English

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          "text": "at the witherward side of the year"
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          "text": "Nevertheless, he cannot be seriously opposed to scientific research as distinguished from technical research for the next four chapters deal with such theoretical subjects as \"the question of the atom,\" \"the witherward of matter,\" \"the chemical interpretation of life\" and \"the beginning of things.\"",
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      "form": "most witherward",
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        "superlative"
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  "lang_code": "en",
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      "glosses": [
        "Contrary to, against."
      ],
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        [
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        ],
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          "against"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwɪðə(ɹ)wə(ɹ)d/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "witherward"
}

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    "English 3-syllable words",
    "English adjectives",
    "English adverbs",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Old English",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Old English",
    "English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "English terms prefixed with wither-",
    "English terms suffixed with -ward",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English uncountable nouns"
  ],
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      "args": {
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        "3": "witherward"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "ang",
        "3": "wiþerweard",
        "4": "",
        "5": "contrary, adverse, hostile"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English wiþerweard (“contrary, adverse, hostile”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "4": "",
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      "name": "inh"
    },
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        "3": "ward",
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      },
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      "name": "suffix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "widarwart",
        "3": "",
        "4": "witherward"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German widarwart (“witherward”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "widerwärtig",
        "3": "",
        "4": "adverse, repulsive"
      },
      "expansion": "German widerwärtig (“adverse, repulsive”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "got",
        "2": "𐍅𐌹𐌸𐍂𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸𐍃",
        "3": "",
        "4": "witherward"
      },
      "expansion": "Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌸𐍂𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸𐍃 (wiþrawairþs, “witherward”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English witherward, from Old English wiþerweard (“contrary, adverse, hostile”), from Proto-Germanic *wiþrawardaz (“contrary, adverse, in opposition”); equivalent to wither (“against”) + -ward. Cognate with Old High German widarwart (“witherward”), German widerwärtig (“adverse, repulsive”), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌸𐍂𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸𐍃 (wiþrawairþs, “witherward”).",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1850, Henry Mills Alden, Harper's new monthly magazine: Volume 1, Issues 1-6",
          "text": "Nor, although be sung the \"mighty stream of tendency\" of this wondrous age, did he ever launch his poetic craft upon it, nor seem to see the witherward of its swift and awful stress.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1912, American Chemical Society, Journal of the American Chemical Society: Volume 34, Issues 1-6",
          "text": "Nevertheless, he cannot be seriously opposed to scientific research as distinguished from technical research for the next four chapters deal with such theoretical subjects as \"the question of the atom,\" \"the witherward of matter,\" \"the chemical interpretation of life\" and \"the beginning of things.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1950, Thomas Hardy, The mayor of Casterbridge",
          "text": "They were those of the song he had sung when he arrived years before at the Three Mariners, a poor young man, adventuring for life and fortune, and scarcely knowing witherward: [...]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        ],
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        [
          "hostility",
          "hostility"
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        "uncountable"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwɪðə(ɹ)wə(ɹ)d/"
    }
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