[f. SOUTHERN a. + -LY1.] = SOUTHERLY a.
1594. Blundevil, Exerc., III. II. viii. (1597), 186. If the declination … be Southernly.
1620. E. Blount, Horæ Subs., 136. More Sowthernly people … vpon extraordinarie businesses driuen to the towne.
1655. Culpepper, etc. Riverius, IX. lxxviii. 265. The External Causes, are … Southernly weather, or infectious Air.
1658. W. Burton, Comment. Itin. Antoninus, 218. The Town from the Southerly situation is at this day Southanton.
1803. Visct. Strangford, Poems of Camoens (1810), 63. Thy branches still wave to the southernly sigh.
1865. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., XVIII. xiii. (1872), VIII. 46. Wind a mere lull, but southernly if any.
Hence Southernliness, the ‘state of being southernly’ (Ogilvie, 1850).
