adv. rare. [ME. þertoward, f. THERE 17 + TOWARD prep.] Toward that (place, thing, matter, etc.).

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a. 1225.  Leg. Kath., 1484. Þat alle þat ter bi gað … buhe þer toward.

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a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 52. Eue … turnde hire lust þer toward, & nom & et þerof, & ȝef hire louerd.

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1828.  [C. H. Phipps], The English in France, III. 263. They [the French] yet have a hankering hope of the perfectibility of human nature, and labour theretoward in all seriousness and good faith.

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1875.  Tennyson, Queen Mary, II. ii.

        As to this marriage, ye shall understand
We made thereto no treaty of ourselves,
And set no foot theretoward unadvised
Of all our Privy Council.

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1908.  Daily News, 29 Feb., 4. The matter of Signor Nasi’s conduct, with the popular attitude theretoward.

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