Where does usward come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

usward

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"Then I, whose eyes were keen, saw, blown usward from Margny, a cloud of flying dust, that in Scotland we call stour."
"But the Gods have sent him to usward to work us measureless good: It is even Sigurd the Volsung, the best man ever born, The man that the Gods withstand not, my friend, and my brother sworn.""

From Middle English us-ward; equivalent to us + -ward.

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