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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Outward \Out"ward\, a.
1. Forming the superficial part external; exterior; --
opposed to {inward}; as an outward garment or layer.
Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is
renewed day by day --Cor. iv 16.
2. Of or pertaining to the outer surface or to what is
external; manifest; public. ``Sins outward.'' --Chaucer.
An outward honor for an inward toil. --Shak.
3. Foreign; not civil or intestine; as an outward war.
[Obs.] --Hayward.
4. Tending to the exterior or outside.
The fire will force its outward way --Dryden.
-- {Out"ward*ly}, adv -- {Out"ward*ness}, n.
{Outward stroke}. (Steam Engine) See under {Stroke}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
outwardly
adv 1: with respect to the outside; "outwardly, the figure is
smooth" [syn: {externally}]
2: in outward appearance; "outwardly, she appeared composed"
[ant: {inwardly}]
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