• Southwardly

    Full definition of southwardly

    Adverb

    southwardly

    1. southwards, towards the south
      • 1850, William Cullen Bryant, Letters of a Traveller Chapter , As we proceeded southwardly, the temperature grew milder, and the day closed with a calm and pleasant sunset.
      • 1916, H. G. Wells, What is Coming? Chapter , The Scandinavian peoples have developed a tendency to an extra-European outlook, to look west and east rather than southwardly, to be pacifist and progressive in a manner essentially American.
      • June 16, Dungey (7 ) first sketched the consequences for an interplanetary (solar wind) magnetic field (IMF) that was oppositely directed (southwardly) from the generally northward terrestrial field.
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