Definition of "northeastwardly" [northeastwardly]

• Towards the northeast. (adverb)

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• "•Diverse, folded, and faulted, partly glaciated ecoregion with northeastwardly trending, forested ridges and agricultural valleys; structurally distinct from the flat-lying rocks of Ecoregion 62."
• "This stream is about one hundred feet wide, meandering northeastwardly through a beautiful and fertile valley, about ten miles in width."
• "It is worthy of notice, that our mountains are not solitary and scattered confusedly over the face of the country; but that they commence at about one hundred and fifty miles from the sea-coast, are disposed in ridges, one behind another, running nearly parallel with the sea-coast, though rather approaching it as they advance northeastwardly."