Outward vs Without - What's the difference?
outward | without |
outer; located towards the outside
visible, noticeable
Tending to the exterior or outside.
* Dryden
(obsolete) Foreign; not civil or intestine.
Towards the outside; away from the centre.
:We are outward bound.
*Shakespeare
*:The wrong side may be turned outward .
(obsolete) Outwardly, in outer appearances; publicly.
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*:ANd thenne the quene lete make a preuy dyner in london vnto the kny?tes of the round table / and al was for to shewe outward that she had as grete Ioye in al other knyghtes of the table round as she had in sir launcelot / al only at that dyner she had sir Gawayne and his bretheren
(obsolete, rare) To ward off; to keep out.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.1:
(archaic, or, literary) outside, externally
* c.1600s , (William Shakespeare), (Macbeth)
* 1900 , (Ernest Dowson), Benedictio Domini , lines 13-14
* 1904 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), (The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez) (Norton 2005, p.1100)
Lacking something.
Outside of, beyond.
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*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:Without the gate / Some drive the cars, and some the coursers rein.
*(Thomas Burnet) (1635?-1715)
*:Eternity, before the world and after, is without our reach.
*1967 , (George Harrison),
*:Life goes on within you and without you.
Not having, containing, characteristic of, etc.
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*, chapter=22
, title= *1967 , (George Harrison),
*:Life goes on within you and without you.
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, title= Not doing or not having done something.
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*:Athelstan Arundel walked home […], foaming and raging.He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
Unless, except (introducing a clause).
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*:And whanne this old man had sayd thus he came to one of tho knyghtes and sayd I haue lost alle that I haue sette in the / For thou hast rulyd the ageynste me as a warryour and vsed wrong werres with vayne glory more for the pleasyr of the world than to please me / therfor thow shalt be confounded withoute thow yelde me my tresour
*1913 , DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers , Penguin, 2006, p.264:
*:‘Why,’ he blurted, ‘because they say I've no right to come up like this—without we mean to marry—’
*1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
*:But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.
As adverbs the difference between outward and without
is that outward is towards the outside; away from the centre while without is (archaic|or|literary) outside, externally.As an adjective outward
is outer; located towards the outside.As a verb outward
is (obsolete|rare) to ward off; to keep out.As a preposition without is
outside of, beyond.As a conjunction without is
unless, except (introducing a clause).outward
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl)Adjective
(en adjective)- By all outward indications, he's a normal happy child, but if you talk to him, you will soon realize he has some psychological problems.
- The fire will force its outward way.
- an outward war
- (Hayward)
Adverb
(en adverb)Synonyms
* outwardsDerived terms
* outwardnessEtymology 2
From .Verb
(en verb)- Ne any armour could his dint out-ward ; / But wheresoever it did light, it throughly shard.
Anagrams
* *without
English
Alternative forms
* withoute (archaic); wythoute, wythowt (obsolete), wythowte (obsolete)Adverb
(en adverb)- Macbeth: There's blood upon your face
- Murderer: 'tis Banquo's then
- Macbeth: 'tis better thee without then he within.
- Strange silence here: without , the sounding street
- Heralds the world's swift passage to the fire
- I knew that someone had entered the house cautiously from without .
- Being from a large, poor family, he learned to live without .
Preposition
(English prepositions)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.}}
Travels and travails, passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema.}}