leftwise

Leftward, on the left side.

Adjective

  1. Leftward, on the left side.
    • The leftwise action aims at what drifts out of the nunka domain of the nefarious. Similarly for mortuary arrangements, what is leftwise is more momentous than what is rightwise. - 2006, Arne Røkkum, Nature, ritual, and...

Origin

From left + -wise.

Related

rightwise

Adverb

  1. By a leftward path; leftwards, leftwardly; anticlockwise, counterclockwise.
    • and doing so they say that they do it themselves rightwise and the Hellenes leftwise. - 1890, G. C. Macaulay, The History of Herodotus, translated into English:
    • Similarly, his "doubling procedure" consists in the same random starting interval […] whose length is doubled (leftwise or rightwise at random) recursively till both ends are outside the slice. - 2004, Christian P....