leftwise

From left +‎ -wise.

leftwise (not comparable)

(rare) By a leftward path; leftwards, leftwardly; anticlockwise, counterclockwise.
- 1890, G. C. Macaulay, The History of Herodotus, translated into English:
  and doing so they say that they do it themselves rightwise and the Hellenes leftwise.
- 2004, Christian P. Robert, George Casella, Monte Carlo statistical methods, page 336:
  Similarly, his "doubling procedure" consists in the same random starting interval […] whose length is doubled (leftwise or rightwise at random) recursively till both ends are outside the slice.

leftwise

(rare) Leftward, on the left side.
- 2006, Arne Røkkum, Nature, ritual, and society in Japan's Ryukyu Islands, page 151:
  The leftwise action aims at what drifts out of the nunka domain of the nefarious. Similarly for mortuary arrangements, what is leftwise is more momentous than what is rightwise.

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