Definition of "outwards"

outwards

/ˈaʊtwɚdz/

adverb
comparative more outwards, superlative most outwards
1. From the interior toward the exterior; in an outward direction.
  Quotations
  Light falling on them is not reflected outwards.
  1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […]
2. (obsolete) Outwardly; (merely) on the surface.
  Quotations
  Wo be to you scrybes, and pharises ypocrites, for ye are lyke unto paynted tombes which appere beautyfull outwardes: but are within full off deed mens bones and of all fylthynes.
  1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], Matthew ]

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