heavenward
English
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editFrom Middle English hevenward, heveneward, hefneward, equivalent to heaven + -ward.
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editheavenward (not comparable)
- Leading or rising toward heaven.
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XL, page 62:
- Thy spirit ere our fatal loss
Did ever rise from high to higher;
As mounts the heavenward altar-fire,
As flies the lighter thro’ the gross.