Meaning of altarward | Babel Free

Definitions

Being in or facing towards an altar.

not-comparable, rare

Examples

“Side galleries are then practically useless. Æsthetically they altogether contradict the altarward tendency of the church.”

“This fact is always shown forth symbolically by the eastward, or altarward position.”

“At twenty-five, Buster was a celebrity bachelor, and a Talmadge sister wedding - even if it involved the non-Hollywood one - was a newsworthy affair. So the media settled in to track the altarward progress of the Keaton-Talmadge sweethearts, though the date for the big event remained to be determined.”

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