adv. and a. [f. prec.] a. adv. In an uphill direction. b. adj. Leading uphill.
c. 1655. Milton, To C. Skinner, Wks. 1738, I. 59. Nor bate a Jot Of Heart or Hope, but still attend to steer Uphillward.
1876. Farrar, Marlb. Serm., xii. 112. The path of life is narrow and uphillward. Ibid. (1877), Eternal Hope (1892), 90. The difficulty of … virtue’s uphillward path.
