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adverb

Downwards, Downward adv.

From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course; as, to tend, move, roll, look, or take root, downward or downwards. "Looking downwards." "Their heads they downward bent."

From a higher to a lower condition; toward misery, humility, disgrace, or ruin. "And downward fell into a groveling swine."

From a remote time; from an ancestor or predecessor; from one to another in a descending line. "A ring the county wears, That downward hath descended in his house, From son to son, some four or five descents."

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Etymology of 'Downwards'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Downwards" Quotes from Famous Books

... ranks of the massive, unconscious rearguard, who placidly watch the phosphorescent evolutions of mind as its light gleams on the world's elementary darkness. For humanity is a unique and unanimous entity. When the thought of the mass—that thought which scarcely is thought—travels downwards, its influence is felt by philosopher and poet, astronomer and chemist; it has its pronounced effect on their character, morals, ideals, their sense of duty, habits of labour, intellectual vigour. If the myriad, ...

— The Buried Temple • Maurice Maeterlinck

... lying face downwards on the bed, her body racked with pain. Mrs Gowler sat impassively on the only chair in the room, while Jill watched her mistress with frightened eyes from a corner. Now and again, when a specially violent pain tormented her body, Mavis would grip ...

— Sparrows - The Story of an Unprotected Girl • Horace W. C. Newte

... "hurrahs" of the assertive seventeen directed his attention to Robbins' solemn proceedings. In a private letter to King he described what had happened as a "childish ceremony," which had been made more ridiculous "from the manner in which the flag was placed, the head being downwards, and the attitude not very majestic. Having occasion to go on shore that day, I saw for myself what I am telling you. I thought at first it might have been a flag which had been used to strain water and then hung out to dry; but seeing ...

— Terre Napoleon - A history of French explorations and projects in Australia • Ernest Scott

... to return, and the demon who amuses himself by beguiling Alpine travellers suggested the memory of a certain short cut which involved a bit of amusing scrambling. I was speedily occupied in fighting my way downwards through a steep ravine, cloven by a vicious little torrent from a lofty glacier, when—how it happened I know not, for all forms of earth and grassy slope were obliterated at a few yards by the descending showers—I ...

— Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools • Emilie Kip Baker

... ancient armour, with which the wall was covered, afforded the principal source of the Duke's wit, as he insisted upon knowing from the old man, who, he said, could best remember matters from the days of King Arthur downwards at the least, the history of the different warlike weapons, and anecdotes of the battles in which they had been wielded. The old man obviously suffered, when he was obliged, by repeated questions, to tell the legends (often ...

— Peveril of the Peak • Sir Walter Scott

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