Archaic or obsolete directional adverb meaning 'away' or 'in a direction away from something.'
From 'from' + '-ward' (Old English suffix meaning direction, from 'weard' meaning turned toward). This construction parallels other directional adverbs like 'forward', 'backward', and 'toward'.
English used to make tons of direction words by adding '-ward' to prepositions—'fromward' follows the same pattern as 'upward' or 'outward,' but it never really caught on and fell out of use.
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