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Definition of Downwards
1. Adverb. Spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position. "Prices plunged downward"
Definition of Downwards
1. Adverb. Towards a lower place; towards what is below. ¹
2. Adverb. To a lower figure or amount. ¹
3. Adverb. Towards something which is lower in order, smaller, inferior etc. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Downwards
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Downwards
Literary usage of Downwards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"... on the north and west. shale between the end lines of their patented surveys
extended downwards and following the dip of the mineralized limestone zone. ..."
2. The Republic of Plato by Plato (1911)
"... no matter whether with open mouth he gapes upwards or with closed mouth he
blinks downwards, he will never, as I maintain, learn anything, ..."
3. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, George Sharswood, Barron Field (1908)
"... legal signification, an indefinite extent, upwards as well as downwards. ...
to overhang another's land: and downwards, whatever is in a direct line, ..."
4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1908)
"Figure 13 : a stream moving on a path of slight curvature, downwards and towards
the left, swept across the lower part of the after-image. ..."
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