What's the difference between heavenward and heavenwards?
Heavenward
Definition:
(a & adv.) Toward heaven.
Example Sentences:
(1) He looks heavenward in prayer: "Pardon, Richard; they know not what they do."
(2) Gawain grips the axe and heaves it heavenwards, plants his left foot firmly on the floor in front, then swings it swiftly towards the bare skin.
(3) The Meerut rally was a success, he indicates, making an odd gesture, part invocation, part assertion, with a hand pointing heavenwards.
(4) We’re talking about several countries which for their own reasons wanted to grant asylum for people from the national service.” During an interview at the information ministry sitting on top of a hill along with the state broadcaster overlooking Asmara, Meskel rolled his eyes heavenward before answering each question.
(5) And of course, the most famously iconic image from the film is that of a stripped Andy standing with his arms outstretched, his head turned heavenward, in a moment of agony and ecstasy clearly resembling the crucifixion.
(6) They had bought the ethereal idea of "the cloud", that benign mystical repository of all knowledge and data; when she asked them where they thought it was, they all looked heavenwards.
(7) His turfing out of Michael Portillo from Enfield Southgate was the emblem of Labour's 1997 landslide - recorded in the bashful yet gleeful manner with which he rolled his eyes heavenward on hearing the result.
(8) Some of the followers of William Miller in 1844 sat on top of their homes, so that when they were raptured heavenwards they would not crack their heads on the ceiling.
(9) The device that Steve Jobs, chief executive and co-founder of Apple , will unveil at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is variously predicted to transform our experience of reading electronic versions of books, newspapers and magazines (there are publishing executives clasping their hands heavenwards with that fervent wish); of watching TV and video; of surfing the web and playing games; even of making internet video calls.
Heavenwards
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) He looks heavenward in prayer: "Pardon, Richard; they know not what they do."
(2) Gawain grips the axe and heaves it heavenwards, plants his left foot firmly on the floor in front, then swings it swiftly towards the bare skin.
(3) The Meerut rally was a success, he indicates, making an odd gesture, part invocation, part assertion, with a hand pointing heavenwards.
(4) We’re talking about several countries which for their own reasons wanted to grant asylum for people from the national service.” During an interview at the information ministry sitting on top of a hill along with the state broadcaster overlooking Asmara, Meskel rolled his eyes heavenward before answering each question.
(5) And of course, the most famously iconic image from the film is that of a stripped Andy standing with his arms outstretched, his head turned heavenward, in a moment of agony and ecstasy clearly resembling the crucifixion.
(6) They had bought the ethereal idea of "the cloud", that benign mystical repository of all knowledge and data; when she asked them where they thought it was, they all looked heavenwards.
(7) His turfing out of Michael Portillo from Enfield Southgate was the emblem of Labour's 1997 landslide - recorded in the bashful yet gleeful manner with which he rolled his eyes heavenward on hearing the result.
(8) Some of the followers of William Miller in 1844 sat on top of their homes, so that when they were raptured heavenwards they would not crack their heads on the ceiling.
(9) The device that Steve Jobs, chief executive and co-founder of Apple , will unveil at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is variously predicted to transform our experience of reading electronic versions of books, newspapers and magazines (there are publishing executives clasping their hands heavenwards with that fervent wish); of watching TV and video; of surfing the web and playing games; even of making internet video calls.