adv. and a. Obs. rare. [f. UTTER a. or adv. + -WARD.]
A. adv. Outside; outwardly, externally.
1436. Pol. Poems (Rolls), II. 157. The trewe processe of Englysh polycye, Of utterwarde to kepe thys regne in rest Of oure England.
1538. in Lett. Suppress. Monast. (Camden), 228. The state of the howse bothe inwardely and utterward.
B. adj. Of confession: Made to a member of a religious house by a non-member.
c. 1535. T. Bedyll, in G. J. Aungier, Syon Mon. (1840), 88. To know his pleasire … towching the muring up of the howses of utterward confessions. [Cf. UTTWARD (quots. c. 1535).)
