Southernly

See also: southernly

English

Etymology

Southern +‎ -ly

Adverb

Southernly (comparative more Southernly, superlative most Southernly)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of southernly (“in the manner of the South or of Southerners”)
    • 1972, Sh'ma:
      The community is Southernly polite to newcomers. They'll engage a new face in conversation in the synagogue, which doesn't usually happen elsewhere.
    • 2011, Andrew B. Leiter, Southerners on Film: Essays on Hollywood Portrayals Since the 1970s, McFarland, →ISBN, page 181:
      […] and the imposing images of her pioneer, but now diabetic and near-blind father, Furman Temple (Ralph Waite) and her Southernly genteel theatrical mother,  […]
    • 2019, James T Sears, Lonely Hunters: An Oral History Of Lesbian And Gay Southern Life, 1948-1968, Routledge, →ISBN:
      The Southerners later convened in Birmingham to organize the States' Rights party, selecting Senator Strom Thurmond […] It wasn't a Southernly reception.
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