southwardly

southwardly

English

Etymology

southward +‎ -ly

Adverb

southwardly (comparative more southwardly, superlative most southwardly)

1. southwards, towards the south
   • 1850, William Cullen Bryant, Letters of a Traveller‎:

     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?‎:

     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.

   • 2000 June 16, John G. Lyon, “The Solar Wind-Magnetosphere-Ionosphere System”, in Science‎, volume 288, number 5473, DOI:10.1126/science.288.5473.1987, pages 1987-1991:

     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.

Adjective

southwardly (comparative more southwardly, superlative most southwardly)

1. southwards, towards the south