Meaning of witherward | Babel Free

Definitions

Opposite; adversity, opposition; hostility

uncountable

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Examples

“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⟳.”

“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."”

“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: [...]”

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