1. preposition /təˈwɔːd,twɔːɹd,tɔːɹd/
a) Moving in the direction of (but not necessarily arriving at).
She moved toward the door.
b) In relation to (someone or something).
What are your feelings toward him?
2. adjective /təˈwɔːd,twɔːɹd,tɔːɹd/
ere that wished day his beame disclosd, / He either enuying my toward good, / Or of himselfe to treason ill disposd / One day vnto me came in friendly mood [...].
On the morrow […] orders the Cellerarius to send off his carpenters to demolish the said structure brevi manu, and lay up the wood in safe keeping. Old Dean Herbert, hearing what was toward, comes tottering along hither, to plead humbly for himself and his mill.
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