outward form

collocation in English

meaningsofoutwardandform

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outward
adjective
uk
/ˈaʊt.wəd/us
/ˈaʊt.wɚd/
relating to how people, situations, or things seem to be, rather than how they ...
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form
noun
uk
/fɔːm/us
/fɔːrm/
a paper or set of papers printed with spaces in which answers to questions can be written or information can be recorded in an ...
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(Definition ofoutwardandformfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofoutward form

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His was a figure of tremendous, repressed pain; hisoutwardformmuffled a raucous, screaming silence.
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Theoutwardformof economic theory has been shaped by its connection with material wealth.
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Natural law effectively delegated to the sovereign power a natural right of permission to determine theoutwardformof worship in things that were essentially indifferent, or adiaphora.
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They are endeavouring to stimulate an artificial religion by hanging on to anoutwardformof something no longer there.
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This is not an ordinary form of tax avoidance, but a particularly unscrupulous one, and, in itsoutwardform, a particularly dishonest one.
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Whatever theoutwardformof presentation of the guidelines, imperceptible pressures have arisen when aggregate demand has been at the wrong level.
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A change was effected inoutwardform, but at the expense of inner efficiency.
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Their central recommendation was that transactions should in future be regulated according to their essential function and not according to theiroutwardform.
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What has happened tonight is, in itsoutwardformat any rate, nothing that comes as a surprise to us.
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It leaves the substance of our objections, but changes theoutwardforma little, if it changes it at all.
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Government can preserve theoutwardform, but not the content.
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His cervid identity is expressed in his going about in theoutwardformof a deer.
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At the same time, in public, he meticulously observed the various protocols that protected the outward forms of propriety.
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This process is never easy to fully comprehend, especially after a lapse of time, while the outward forms which result are tactile, measurable and describable.
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Rites took on significance not just as anoutwardformof purity, but as means to achieve inner purity as well and cultivating the necessary virtues towards makoto.
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As they saw it, the party had come to represent not revolutionary vigour but careerist conformity and superficial, outward forms.
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The ' normal' progress of the courtship has been inwardly derailed, even if the outward forms are being observed.
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Since they understand the spiritual life in entirely inward terms, they do not employ sacraments or other outward forms in worship.
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It is not anoutwardformwrapped around the object that matters to us, but form in the sense of inbuilt capacity and potential vehicle of significance.
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There is no need for division, seeing that it is only the outward forms that separate them.
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