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adjective

Downward adj.

Moving or extending from a higher to a lower place; tending toward the earth or its center, or toward a lower level; declivous. "With downward force That drove the sand along he took his way."

Descending from a head, origin, or source; as, a downward line of descent.

Tending to a lower condition or state; depressed; dejected; as, downward thoughts.

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 'Downward'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Downward" Quotes from Famous Books

... properties of wealth. The odd thought struck the clergyman that this man had made his own Tower of London, had built with his own hands the prison in which he was to end his days. The carved oaken ceiling, lofty though it was, had the effect of pressing downward, the heavy furniture matched the heavy walls, and even the silent, quick-moving ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... millions of hands will aid you in pulling the load upward or they will pull against you the load downward. We shall constitute one-third and more of the ignorance and crime of the South or one-third its intelligence and progress. We shall contribute one-third to the business and industrial prosperity of the South or we shall prove ...

— The Future of the American Negro • Booker T. Washington

... by step, onward and downward, towards some end, yet so gradually, that she believed herself to remain motionless. As to Mr. Harthouse, whither he tended, he neither considered nor cared. He had no particular design or plan before him: no energetic wickedness ruffled ...

— Hard Times • Charles Dickens*

... easy matter to climb around or over the rocks which lay between the boys and the old mill, and the darkness under the thick trees was intense. They felt their way along slowly, and Tom was careful to carry the shotgun with the barrel pointed downward, that there might be ...

— The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle - The Strange Cruise of the Steam Yacht • Edward Stratemeyer

... despatches of L'Hermitage, and, indeed of the despatches of all the ministers and agents employed by the States General in England from the time of Elizabeth downward, now are or will soon be in the library of the British Museum. For this valuable addition to the great national storehouse of knowledge, the country is chiefly indebted to Lord Palmerston. But it would be unjust not to add that his ...

— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 4 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

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