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seawardly

seawardly adverb: toward the sea.

Adverb

seawardly (not comparable)

  1. Toward the sea.
    • Looking seawardly, we distinguish the bursting crests of long ridges of waves, and far off, where the cloud on the horizon has lifted apparently an inch or two, you can observe the irregular, peaked, and jagged outline of the agitated sea.1845, “The price of a garter and the price of a life”, in Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, volume 3, page 434
    • The environments in question include inland basins, seawardly dipping and off-shore sediments, low-permeability basement under a sedimentary cover, hard rocks in low-relief terrane and small islands.2012, H.-G. Attendorn, Isotopes in the Earth Sciences, page 562

Origin of seawardly

From seaward + -ly.

Questions about seawardly

What does seawardly mean?
Seawardly means toward the sea.
What part of speech is seawardly?
Seawardly is an adverb.

Words near seawardly in the dictionary

  1. seawan
  2. seawans
  3. seawant
  4. seawants
  5. seaward
  6. seawardly
  7. seawards
  8. seaware
  9. seawatching
  10. seawater
  11. seawaters

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