Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a downward direction; downward.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to the
downward or lower part of something;lower ;bottom . - adjective
Lowly . - adverb
Downward .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And although Anna and her sister adulteresses Emma Bovary and Tess still mesmerize us by plunging spectacularly netherward through their societies, heat tiles flying for all to see, in modern times a transgressor's extravagant death by train, arsenic, or even that deliciously gothic twist from the court ladies of Imperial China — eating one's own jewelry — no longer cuts it.
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And although Anna and her sister adulteresses Emma Bovary and Tess still mesmerize us by plunging spectacularly netherward through their societies, heat tiles flying for all to see, in modern times a transgressor's extravagant death by train, arsenic, or even that deliciously gothic twist from the court ladies of Imperial China — eating one's own jewelry — no longer cuts it.
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But not a bough of them was visible, a cloak of blackness covering everything netherward; while overhead the windy sky looked down with a strange and disguised face, the three or four stars that alone were visible being so dissociated by clouds that she knew not which they were.
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In the past couple of weeks, a good part of the media-the New York Post and Daily News particularly-but the entire Internet culture, TV cable-box mechanism and glossy-magazine landscape has conspired to make the American glands throb with blown-up photographs of Britney Spears presenting netherward.
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They left the rock and hunted on, going netherward into a damp swale rich with the odor of places where galax grows, descending through scattered clumps of twisted laurel to a thin creek.
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They left the rock and hunted on, going netherward into a damp swale rich with the odor of places where galax grows, descending through scattered clumps of twisted laurel to a thin creek.
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Midst the mists of the nesses wends netherward ever, 1360
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As I watch'd where you pass'd and was lost in the netherward black of the night,
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As I watchd where you passd and was lost in the netherward black of the night,
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As I watchd where you passd and was lost in the netherward black of the night,
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