Toward vs Wheretoward - What's the difference?
toward | wheretoward |
In the direction of.
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*(Bible), (w) xxiv. 1
*:He set his face toward the wilderness.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
In relation to (someone or something).
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*(Bible), (w)
*:His eye shall be evil toward his brother.
For the purpose of attaining (an aim).
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Located close to; near (a time or place).
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*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
*:I am toward nine years older since I left you.
(obsolete) Future; to come.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iv:
(dated) Approaching, coming near; impending; present, at hand.
* Shakespeare
* 1843 , '', book 2, ch. XV, ''Practical — Devotional
Yielding, pliant; docile; ready or apt to learn; not froward.
(obsolete, or, archaic) Promising, likely; froward.
(archaic) Toward which or toward where (toward the thing or destination under discussion). Often serves to further qualify the thing or destination itself.
As a preposition toward
is in the direction of.As an adjective toward
is (obsolete) future; to come.As a conjunction wheretoward is
(archaic) toward which or toward where (toward the thing or destination under discussion) often serves to further qualify the thing or destination itself.toward
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Preposition
(en-prep) (mainly in American English)Synonyms
* towardsUsage notes
* Although some have tried to discern a semantic distinction between the words (term) and (towards), the difference is merely dialectal. (term) is more common in American English and (towards) is the predominant form in British English.Adjective
(-)- ere that wished day his beame disclosd, / He either enuying my toward good, / Or of himselfe to treason ill disposd / One day vnto me came in friendly mood [...].
- Do you hear aught, sir, of a battle toward ?
- On the morrow […] orders the Cellerarius to send off his carpenters to demolish the said structure brevi manu , and lay up the wood in safe keeping. Old Dean Herbert, hearing what was toward , comes tottering along hither, to plead humbly for himself and his mill.
- Why, that is spoken like a toward prince. ? Shakespeare.
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* American Englishwheretoward
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Conjunction
(English Conjunctions)- you shall see in front of you the Golden Age for a goal, wheretoward you shall labor and struggle. - Katherine Tingley (ed.), 2003
- But for this statement one would have believed that the choice of style could only have been one of those audacious whims wheretoward youthfulness, prone to paradox, will sometimes be drawn. - Aymer Vallance, 1897
- Ye work Athwart your kings, forecasting overthrows Wheretoward ye toil, armed with the potent spell Of that mysterious union which ye claim... - George Savage-Armstrong, 1872