Obs. Also 5 Sc. forðward, forthwart. [See FORTH adv.] = FOREWARD sb.1

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c. 1340.  Cursor M., 13959 (Fairf.).

        Þe Iewes wiþ þaire fals forþward
þen wiþ þaire fals tresoun & rede
þai soȝt ihesu to þe dede.

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c. 1470.  Henry the Minstrel, Wallace, XI. 487. For thi manheid this forthwart to me fest.

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1535.  Stewart, Cron. Scot., iii. 254.

        As plesit him his fordward to fulfill;
Was nane that tyme mycht warne him of his will.

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