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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Downward \Down"ward\, Downwards \Down"wards\, adverb [AS. ad?nweard. See {Down}, adverb, and {-ward}.]
1. 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.'' --Pope.
Their heads they downward bent. --Drayton.
2. From a higher to a lower condition; toward misery, humility, disgrace, or ruin.
And downward fell into a groveling swine. --Milton.
3. 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. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
downwards
adverb: spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position; "don't fall down"; "rode the lift up and skied down"; "prices plunged downward" [syn: {down}, {downward}, {downwardly}] [ant: {up}, {up}, {up}, {up}]
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