southernly

comparative more southernly · superlative most southernly

1. Southerly, somewhat southern.

comparative more southernly · superlative most southernly

1. Southward, southerly.

   […] the said river flowed in a southernly direction, and thence around said Dean's Island, and at or about the southwest end thereof the river turned […]

   1832, Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court, page 856

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   […] thence in a southernly direction in the center line of Alabama street to the center line of Fifteenth street; thence in an easternly direction in the […]

   1904, Indianapolis (Indiana), The General Ordinances of the City of Indianapolis, page 244

2. In a Southern manner, in a way typical of a Southerner or of the South (the southern United States).

   Our school experience was blissfully and southernly white.

   2017, Ginny Wilder, All My Words Have Holes in Them: Simple Daily Meditations, Church Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 92

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   “The good Lord seemed fond of sending us southerners many trials!” Christa murmured, […] “We were ever in sympathy with our more southernly sisters!”

   2012, Heather Graham, And One Rode West: A Novel, Loveswept, →ISBN, page 265

   Mama and Daddy, being typical southerners, had also taught us to politely [offer food] […] [I] only politely offer Phe Phe a slice of my apple to fulfill my southernly duty.

   2013, Dr. M. Jeanne Dolphus Cotton, Core' S. Cotton, A Three Hundred and Sixty -Degree Perspective: A Mother - Daughter Journey of Come Here Meets Been There, →ISBN

comparative more Southernly · superlative most Southernly

1. Alternative letter-case form of southernly (“in the manner of the South or of Southerners”).

   The community is Southernly polite to newcomers. They'll engage a new face in conversation in the synagogue, which doesn't usually happen elsewhere.

   1972, Sh'ma

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   […] and the imposing images of her pioneer, but now diabetic and near-blind father, Furman Temple (Ralph Waite) and her Southernly genteel theatrical mother, […]

   2011, Andrew B. Leiter, Southerners on Film: Essays on Hollywood Portrayals Since the 1970s, McFarland, →ISBN, page 181

   The Southerners later convened in Birmingham to organize the States' Rights party, selecting Senator Strom Thurmond […] It wasn't a Southernly reception.

   2019, James T Sears, Lonely Hunters: An Oral History Of Lesbian And Gay Southern Life, 1948-1968, Routledge, →ISBN