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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
outwardly
adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Outwardly she seemed contented and happy with life.
Outwardly, nothing seemed to have changed.
▪ Amy was outwardly calm, but actually very tense.
▪ Henry remained calm and outwardly unaffected by the terrible events of the previous day.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But this enlightened appreciation of outwardly exposing inner feelings does not yet apply to women.
▪ He stood like a rock, outwardly calm, the comfort and support of the Davis family.
▪ He was not what might be described - in comparison with Robert Redford, say - devastatingly handsome or outwardly charismatic.
▪ The sheds they were among were outwardly like thousands of other sheds they had passed.
▪ There he sat, marooned and outwardly calm, massaging his injured limb, while a curious crowd gathered.
▪ This time she appeared outwardly to be perfectly in control.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Outwardly

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. [1913 Webster] -- Out"ward*ly, adv. -- Out"ward*ness, n.

    Outward stroke. (Steam Engine) See under Stroke.

Wiktionary
outwardly

adv. 1 externally or on the outside, or on the surface 2 toward the outside

WordNet
outwardly
  1. adv. with respect to the outside; "outwardly, the figure is smooth" [syn: externally]

  2. in outward appearance; "outwardly, she appeared composed" [ant: inwardly]

Usage examples of "outwardly".

In such positions the growth of forms which secrete solid skeletons is so rapid that great walls of their remains accumulate next the shore, the mass being built outwardly by successive growths until the realm of the land may be extended for scores of miles into the deep.

From all these instances it is clear that Christ, when He willed, changed the minds of men by His Divine power, not only by the bestowal of righteousness and the infusion of wisdom, which pertains to the end of miracles, but also by outwardly drawing men to Himself, or by terrifying or stupefying them, which pertains to the miraculous itself.

Such a perverse intention takes away the truth of the sacrament, especially if it be manifested outwardly.

Bloom sighed, outwardly morose, inwardly almost ecstatic, sensing that at the end of this telephone call he was going to be off at least one hook.

Here, I am interested - as indeed is the creature itself - with the life and subtle patterning within, which we observe outwardly as the form.

Secondly, He works through ministers, by the outward application of the sacraments: and in this way His work consists in perfecting what was begun outwardly.

Schwarzer, but Schwarzer was the son of a steward, and outwardly he had indeed behaved correctly so they could make K.

The spiritist expects the spirit to reveal itself in outwardly perceptible phenomena as if it were part of the physical world.

He had remained silent after his re mark about South Africa and--last again--he walked to the drawing room to sit quiet, and outwardly deferential, on a chair near the sofa on which Torry and Trish sat, away from the armchairs of Gerard and Tom Moidore.

God was the fire of love kindled in the burning soul that, thusly transpierced with the dart of the assailing Seraphim, thereupon felt the wound with unsurpassable delight, was made radiant by it, was allowed by God at times to manifest that divine sore outwardly.

Looking back at the old town, with its one steep street climbing the white face of the chalk hill, I remembered what wonderful exotic women Thomas Hardy had found eating their hearts out behind the windows of dull country high streets, through which hung waving no banners of romance, outwardly as unpromising of adventure as the windows of the town I had left.

Mrs Tremorne, outwardly contained, inwardly surging with a fierce determination, and entirely untroubled by conscience, decided that strategic attack was the best defence.

He was just as strong, just as talented as ever with a sword or shield, outwardly no different than the Warmonger they all knew.

But, outwardly at least, Beaumont had displayed little but gnawing irritation.

The chief was a lean, spindly man, outwardly dour, but with a puckish sense of humor and who still talked in a broad Glaswegian accent, though for forty years he had been no nearer Scotland than an occasional Burns Night dinner in San Francisco.