onward

Etymology

on + -ward

adj

1. (not comparable) Moving forward.
   There was an onward rush as the gates opened.
2. Advanced in a forward direction or toward an end.

adv

1. In a forward direction.
   Onward Christian soldiers, marching as to war... 1871, “Onward, Christian Soldiers”, Sabine Baring-Gould (lyrics)

verb

1. To keep going; to progress or persevere.
   and those curs'd Mercian women To cross my purposes, with hag-like spite, Do nought but females bear. But I will onward. 1802, The Election, a Comdey in Five Acts, page 277
   Improvement, progress, civilization, however, demand responsive souls. You cannot bribe the great time, it will onward and in its train humanity rises to higher levels. 1892, American Medical Association, Transactions of the Section on Laryngology, Otology and Rhinology
   Tell them, oh guns, that we have heard their call, That we have sworn, and will not turn aside, That we will onward till we win or fall, That we will keep the faith for which they died. 2014, Carolyn Forché, Duncan Wu, Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500-2001, page 530