leftwise
Leftward, on the left side.
Adjective
- 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
Adverb
- 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....