Definition of Outward

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Outward

Alt. of Outwards

Forming the superficial part; external; exterior; -- opposed to inward; as, an outward garment or layer.

Of or pertaining to the outer surface or to what is external; manifest; public.

Foreign; not civil or intestine; as, an outward war.

Tending to the exterior or outside.

External form; exterior.

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Outward Quotations

O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
William Shakespeare

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.
Meister Eckhart

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.
Meister Eckhart

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
Soren Kierkegaard

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
Oswald Chambers

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
Alexis de Tocqueville

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Outward Translations

outward in Dutch is naar buiten, eruit, buitenwaarts
outward in French is externe
outward in Italian is estrinseco
outward in Latin is extrarius
outward in Portuguese is para fora
outward in Spanish is topico

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