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  • adverb Towards oneself

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Examples

  • Mordrains saw the sword he praised it much: But the breaking was not to do but by wickedness of thy selfward, for thou art in some sin.

    Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

  • Christianity should prescribe friendship which is a privilege, not a duty, or should essay to regulate it, for its only ethical rule of strict obligation is the negative rule which would lay out for it a track that shall never interfere with any positive duty selfward, manward or Godward.

    De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • Be like your Master who grew inward, outward, and upward; selfward, manward, and

    The Children's Six Minutes Bruce S. Wright

  • The selfward thoughts and ambitions of the individual man have been thus far driven more and more into the background of fact, if not of consciousness.

    Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Sidney Lewis Gulick 1902

  • In selfward duties, then, why may I not, as creditor, release myself as debtor?

    A Manual of Moral Philosophy 1852

  • These topics are inserted in a treatise on ethics, because whatever has a bearing on health, and thus on the capacity for usefulness selfward and manward which constitutes the whole value of this earthly life, is of grave moral significance.

    A Manual of Moral Philosophy 1852

  • Due care for health, the opportunity for earned and needed recreation, the claims of charity, courtesy, and hospitality, in fine, the immediate urgency of any duty selfward, manward, or Godward, should always take precedence of routine-work however wisely planned.

    A Manual of Moral Philosophy 1852

  • And when that one saw the other they made great joy of other, and either told other of their adventure, and how the sword failed him at his most need When Mordrains saw the sword he praised it much: But the breaking was not to do but by wickedness of thy selfward, for thou art in some sin.

    Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 2 1470

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