southwardly

comparative more southwardly · superlative most southwardly

1. Southwards, towards the south.

   As we proceeded southwardly, the temperature grew milder, and the day closed with a calm and pleasant sunset.

   1850, William Cullen Bryant, Letters of a Traveller

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   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.

   1916, H. G. Wells, What is Coming?

   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.

   2000 June 16, John G. Lyon, “The Solar Wind-Magnetosphere-Ionosphere System”, in Science, volume 288, number 5473, →DOI, pages 1987–1991

comparative more southwardly · superlative most southwardly

1. Southwards, towards the south.