inward

From Middle English inward, from Old English inweard, corresponding to in +‎ -ward.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɪnwəd/

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inward (comparative more inward, superlative most inward)

1. Situated on the inside; that is within, inner; belonging to the inside. [from 9th c.]
2. (obsolete) Intimate, closely acquainted; familiar. [16th-17th c.]
   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 3, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     There is nothing can be added unto the daintinesse of Fulvius wives death, who was so inward with Augustus.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Bible, Job xix. 19

     All my inward friends abhorred me.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Sir Philip Sidney

     He had had occasion, by one very inward with him, to know in part the discourse of his life.

• inwards
• inwardly
• inwardness

inward (comparative more inward, superlative most inward)

1. Towards the inside. [from 11th c.]
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     So much the rather, thou Celestial Light, / Shine inward.

inward (plural inwards)

1. (obsolete, chiefly in the plural) That which is inward or within; the inner parts or organs of the body; the viscera.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Jeremy Taylor to this entry?)

   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     Then sacrificing, laid the inwards and their fat.

2. (obsolete, chiefly in the plural) The mental faculties.
3. (obsolete) A familiar friend or acquaintance.
   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

     I was an inward of his.

• Darwin, darwin, draw in, drawin', indraw

• inwart, ynward, inworde, inwarde, ynvarde, inword, inewarde

From Old English inweard; equivalent to in +‎ -ward.

• IPA^(key): /ˈinward/, /ˈinwaːrd/

inward

1. inwards, to the interior, especially referring to:
   1. One's physical existence or body
   2. One's mental state or soul
2. While located within the inside of an entity, especially referring to:
   1. One's physical existence or body
   2. One's mental state or soul

• inwardes

• English: inward
• Scots: inward

• “in-wā̆rd (adv.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-12.

inward (superlative ynwardest)

1. inside, inward, in the interior; the following special senses exist:
   1. For the inside; internal
   2. religious, inside the mind
2. emotionally powerful, emotionally true
3. unknown, esoteric

• inwardly
• inwardnesse

• English: inward
• Scots: inward

• “in-wā̆rd (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-12.

inward (plural inwardes)

1. The interior of a given thing
2. innards; guts
3. reasoning, deductive ability

• English: inward, innards

• “in-wā̆rd (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-12.

inward

1. To the inside

• “in-wā̆rd (prep.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-12.

• outward