winterwards

English

Etymology

winter +‎ -wards

Adverb

winterwards (comparative more winterwards, superlative most winterwards)

1. Alternative form of winterward
   • 1870 October 22, “Out of Doors”, in All the Year Round, number 99, page 487:

     That last sentence, I fancy, does not ring badly, but, as we are creeping winterwards, it bears a somewhat chilly construction, and will, I doubt not, incline the reader to contemplate with satisfaction the promise of his or her snug bed.

   • 1882, Mrs. Stanley Clarke, From the Deck of a Yacht, page 129:

     At eight that evening we looked our last on the pleasures of our voyage, the brightness of Corfu, and the glorious Albanian hills ; said, " Grood-bye summer," and sailed winterwards all that night, arriving at Brindisi at 8 a.m. on the 24th, a miserable, lowering, tempestuous day, with a lurid, stormy sky, and a heavy, tossing sea.

   • 1957, David Harbord Bone, The Bees of Swanland: a poem, page 17:

     Though damp, though leafless, though devoid of song, As winterwards earth runs.

   • 2007, John North, Stonehenge, page 530:

     Was it a question of imploring the Sun to turn around, and stop going ever more 'winterwards'?

Adjective

winterwards (comparative more winterwards, superlative most winterwards)

1. Alternative form of winterward
   • 1961, Outposts, numbers 47-55, page 7:

     That first tree in the garden must be climbed / and a new landscape from its branches limbed, / a life surveyed from its winterwards foliage / for I am now the spring, I am now my age.

   • 2014, Elizabeth Moon, Deeds of Honor: Paksenarrion World Chronicles:

     The winterwards sentry hooted the alarm, as near to an owl's call as he could.

   • 2019, E. F. Benson, The Challoners:

     Till to-day all had been grey and brown, all still pointed backward, winterwards; but this morning it was different, and the million sprouting lives shouted, “Look forward, look forward!