vanward

How to use vanward in a sentence

• A man should be only partially before his time—to be completely to the vanward in aspirations is fatal to fame.

  Return of the Native | Thomas Hardy

• With them go certain other Bavarians; accompanying or preceding, as in the vanward case.

  History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XIII. (of XXI.) | Thomas Carlyle

• vanward, van′wawrd, adj. (rare) situated in or pertaining to the van or front.

  Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) | Various

• A man should be only partially before his time: to be completely to the vanward in aspirations is fatal to fame.

  The Return of the Native | Thomas Hardy

• In the vanward, or vanguard; misprinted "vanward" in some editions.

  The Lady of the Lake | Sir Walter Scott