Definition of "northwardly" []

• Northwards, towards the north (adverb)

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• "European geographers, however, extended the name northwardly as far as the mountains extended; some giving it, after their separation into different ridges, to the Blue Ridge, others to the North Mountain, others to the Alleghany, others to the Laurel Ridge, as may be seen by their different maps."
• "JACQUI JERAS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Fredricka, it's starting to pull up to the north, that's the big change that we're seeing here and the advisory at this time and so we're seeing the northwardly pull and it's going to moving in, we think, over the next less than 12 hours now before landfall."
• "It will be impossible, unless I am very much mistaken, if you take the beginning of that circumference in Nehemiah, for the corner looking north-east, which some do, -- to interpret these words of Jeremiah in any plain or probable sense; unless you imagine that which is most false, -- that the Valley of Hinnom was situate northwardly."