heavenward
[hev-uh n-werd]
adverb
Also heav·en·wards. toward heaven.
adjective
directed toward heaven: heavenward prayer.
Origin of heavenward
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Examples from the Web for heavenward
Contemporary Examples of heavenward
They all shared a heavenward lift that one no drug could match.
Historical Examples of heavenward
Your sudden disappearance is supposed to have been heavenward.
They and IJerome K. Jerome
His dying eyes had rested on the pages of Horace—his dying thoughts, were they heavenward?
Old JackW.H.G. Kingston
But you will not, I should think, imagine this to have been done in heavenward aspiration.
Lectures on Architecture and PaintingJohn Ruskin
There was a suspicion of a heavenward turn to her nose, and of squareness to her chin.
Rhoda Fleming, CompleteGeorge Meredith
And Mademoiselle Guynot opened wide her arms and lifted them Heavenward.
Paris VistasHelen Davenport Gibbons
heavenward
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