towardly
adjective
apt to learn; promising.
towardliness
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a word derived from
towardly.
Example Sentences
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He had been bred up in the same exercise of bull-baiting, which was her own delight; she had always praised his towardliness, and prophesied his preferment.
From A Book of Scoundrels by Charles Whibley
If we look at his native towardliness in the roughcast, without breeding, some nation or p. 6other may haply be better composed to a natural civility and right judgment than he.
From The Visions of England Lyrics on leading men and events in English History by Henry Morley
Tete d'armee Head of Army. theine Caffeine. towardliness Apt to learn; promising; docile; tractable; propitious; seasonable.
From The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference by Joseph Triemens
