Definitions

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  • adverb towards life.
  • adjective Which lead toward life.

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Examples

  • I called them last Sunday morning from the pulpit the deathward and the lifeward respectively.

    The New Theology 1911

  • Now, when we have brought the two together, you see the essential distinction between working for self and its deathward look, and working for all with its lifeward gaze.

    The New Theology 1911

  • The former tendency is what I call the deathward -- deathward for all else but itself; and the Christ is the lifeward, life for all else but itself.

    The New Theology 1911

  • It is the forth-going instinct, the all-ward, lifeward tendency.

    The New Theology 1911

  • A man thinks to get something by it, and though he finds out his mistake afterward, yet he supposes it to be for him the lifeward road.

    The New Theology 1911

  • Yet -- curious inversion of earlier experience -- the deathward tendency results in death to itself in the spiritual region, and the lifeward tendency results in life to him who gives life.

    The New Theology 1911

  • The words are not very satisfactory because the deathward tendency masquerades as the lifeward tendency, and the lifeward tendency, before fruition, looks like the deathward one.

    The New Theology 1911

  • What is lifeward for him may be deathward for them; he is willing that it should be so -- that is the sin.

    The New Theology 1911

  • These two tendencies we may describe as the deathward and the lifeward respectively.

    The New Theology 1911

  • The terms are not very satisfactory, because the deathward tendency usually masquerades as the lifeward, and the lifeward often looks like the deathward.

    The New Theology 1911

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