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southernly en · ADJ

Etymology

From southern + -ly.

Meanings

1. Southerly, somewhat southern.

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Deriveds

southernliness

southernly en · ADV

Etymology

From southern + -ly.

Meanings

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:
   • […] 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:
   • 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:
   • “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:

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