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towardly
[ tawrd-lee, tohrd- ]
adjective
, Archaic.
- apt to learn; promising.
- docile; tractable.
- propitious; seasonable.
towardly
/ ˈtəʊədlɪ /
adjective
- compliant
- propitious or suitable
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Derived Forms
- ˈtowardliness, noun
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- to·wardli·ness noun
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Example Sentences
But there was one misfortune: thinking to help, she was rather towardly than otherwise to my Dutchman.
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Cheer up, son-in-law: your children are very towardly, you see they can ask blessing already.
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Docile and towardly during his seven- or nine-mile stage, he refused to perform more than his allotted task.
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He was my pupil at Oxford, and a very towardly one; and this knowledge, each of the other, hath continued unto this time.
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Thou art towardly, she is modest; thou art provident, she is careful.
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