Romeward
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of Romeward
Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; see origin at Rome, -ward
Example Sentences
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Furthermore, Naples was the natural resort of all those Greek and Oriental rhetoricians and philosophers, historians, poets, actors, and artists who drifted Romeward from the crumbling courts of Alexandria, Antioch, and Pergamum.
From Vergil A Biography by Tenney Frank
In some minds, after a certain trial, it actually led men back to that Romeward tendency from which they had at first recoiled.
From The Oxford Movement Twelve Years, 1833-1845 by R. W. (Richard William) Church
But it was not by external violence that it was broken, but by the development within itself of a distinctive Romeward bias.
From Famous Reviews by R. Brimley Johnson
This lord thanne axeth if sche wolde 1170 With him abide in compaignie, And seide he cam fro Barbarie To Romeward, and hom he wente.
From Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins by G. C. (George Campbell) Macaulay
It was expected, however, that this Romeward Movement would arouse intense antipathy.
From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Helen Archibald Clarke
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