Definitions
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- adverb Into the
past ; moving backwards in time.
Etymologies
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past + -wards
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Examples
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Less entropy in one “direction” (pastwards), more in the other direction (futurewards).
Incompatible Arrows, III: Lewis Carroll Sean 2008
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Well, hardly a week went by that someone didn't propose shutting down the ambassadorships; they'd talk about how the future kept on leaking pastwards, and if we thought 1975 looked bad, imagine life in 1492 once the future reached it!
A Place so Foreign Cory Doctorow
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