Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
rearward .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The rear guard of an army.
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Examples
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And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the rereward came after the ark of the LORD, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
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And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan set forward, which was the rereward of all the camps throughout their hosts: and over his host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
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And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the rereward came after the ark of the LORD, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
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And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan set forward, which was the rereward of all the camps throughout their hosts: and over his host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
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For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward.
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For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward.
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Saturday the 29. of Maie, hauing sight of Callis, the ships lay to the lee ward, and staied for the rereward.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Saracens came fiercely against the kings rereward, but through Gods mercifull grace in the same battell, the kings warriers acquited themselues so well, that the Saladine was put to flight, whom the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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It goeth diuided into three parts, to wit, the foreward, the maine battell, and the rereward.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Behind these, lesse then a mile, foloweth the rereward, whereof the greater part are pilgrimes: the occasion whereof is, for that the merchants seeke alwayes to be in the foreward for the securitie of their goods, but the pilgrimes which haue litle to loose care not though they come behind.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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