Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Toward God: as, to look Godward.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb Toward God.

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  • adjective toward God
  • adverb towards God

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Examples

  • Though the chapel's founder, Marguerite Bruswig Staude, meant for its contemporary 1950s design to contextualize the liturgy of building in "a monument to faith ... a spiritual fortress so charged with God, that it spurs man's spirit godward," I am struck by how underwhelming it is in its setting.

    Christopher Cocca: What Is Sacred Space? 2010

  • How blessed we are in smallness, how godward might we move.

    Christopher Cocca: What Is Sacred Space? 2010

  • It is now even more easily accessible because of the coming of the New Force that is awakening matter and helping man in his godward aspiration.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • It is now even more easily accessible because of the coming of the New Force that is awakening matter and helping man in his godward aspiration.

    I will persist, O Lord Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • It is a universal need in man, which obviously points us godward.

    The Only True Book Cover Blurbs James F. McGrath 2008

  • Our seer and saint Sri Aurobindo has in him the power of language to alter human lives, to take the initiated reader, his disciple and follower godward.

    Archive 2005-12-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • Our seer and saint Sri Aurobindo has in him the power of language to alter human lives, to take the initiated reader, his disciple and follower godward.

    For all time and for all mankind Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • You spoke of curiosity about the science of origins, or as I would prefer to call it, the science of godward solutions.

    Another Roadside Attraction Robbins, Tom 1971

  • Our true fulfillment is in turning godward, towards the life of reason, and even beyond reason, towards the mystical ascent in ecstasy.

    PROBLEM OF EVIL RADOSLAV A. TSANOFF 1968

  • Our human career is a contention between the urge godward and the evil drag of sen - suality.

    PROBLEM OF EVIL RADOSLAV A. TSANOFF 1968

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