Careful Words

rearward (n.)

rearward (adv.)

rearward (adj.)

Do not drop in for an after-loss.

Ah, do not, when my heart hath 'scap'd this sorrow,

Come in the rearward of a conquer'd woe;

Give not a windy night a rainy morrow,

To linger out a purpos'd overthrow.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Sonnet xc.