manwardadv.adj.
/ˈmanwəd/, U.S. /ˈmænwərd/ Now somewhat rare.
A. adv. Towards man(kind), in the direction of man; in relation to man.† 1. to manward (also to menward). Obsolete.
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the world > people > [adverb] > towards mankind
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c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) iv. iv. 176 Sithe þat man hath ouercome þee, þou shuldest not afterward be so boistous to manward.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Titus iii. 4 After that the kyndnes and love of oure saveoure to manwarde apered.
1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. viii. 65 It is the root out of which all lawes of dutie to men-warde haue growne.
1642 J. Eaton Honey-combe Free Justific. 38 Shee hath put on Christ himselfe, to God-ward by Justification; and to man-ward by Sanctification.
2. Without to.
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a1729 E. Taylor Poems (1960) 378 Grace gilds this shade with brightsom shines Godward And manward doth bring a blest reward.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. ii. 39 Mr. Blattergowl..was nevertheless a good man, in the old Scottish presbyterian phrase, God-ward and man-ward.
1832 T. Cooper Let. 22 Feb. in Amer. Hist. Rev. (1901) 6 734 I regret your tariff propensities..because they bring you so much in..contact with the notion-mongers of yankee-land: they are a race man-ward tarnation twistical.
1865 J. R. Lowell Thoreau in N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 601 Emerson..has drawn steadily manward and worldward.
1888 Advance (Chicago) 2 Aug. Young churches..growing both Christward and manward.
1899 Philos. Rev. 8 654 Christianity is a revelation from God manward; Hinduism, the embodiment of man's aspirations towards God.
1924 F. H. Cheley (title) Climbing manward.
1975 M. S. Harper Nightmare begins Responsibility 53 Work: when worlds turn manward.
B. adj.
Tending or directed towards man; related to man.
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1867 J. S. Monsell Our New Vicar 84 ‘Priest’ and ‘Altar’ speak of his God-ward office: ‘Minister’ and ‘Lord's Table’ refer to his man-ward ministrations.
1902 A. M. Fairbairn Philos. Christian Relig. ii. iii. ii. 543 His manward activities and relations.
1937 E. Underhill Worship (ed. 3) x. 197 That total sanctification and redemption of experience, which is the manward aim of worship.
1950 Jrnl. Theol. Stud. 1 102 The body from Mary, with its centrum vitae, afforded to God the Word an allogenous manward prosopon.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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