etc., obs. varr. (with shortened vowel) of OUTWARD a.
1503–4. Act 19 Hen. VII., c. 4. Preamble, Honour & Victorie … goten ageyne utwarde enymyes.
1526. Tindale, 2 Cor. iv. 16. Though oure vttward man perisshe.
c. 1535. T. Bedyll, in G. J. Aungier, Syon Mon. (1840), 87. The place where thes frires haue beene wont to hire uttward confessiouns of al commers. Ibid. Hering of utward confessions hath beene the cause of muche evyl. [Cf. UTTERWARD a.]
