英和和英

語源

Southern +‎ -ly

副詞

Southernly (comparative more Southernly, superlative most Southernly)

1. Alternative letter-case form of southernly (“in the manner of the South または of Southerners”)
   • 1972, Sh'ma

     The community is Southernly polite to newcomers. They'll engage a new face in conversation in the synagogue, which doesn't usually happen elsewhere.

   • 2011, Andrew B. Leiter, Southerners on Film: Essays on Hollywood Portrayals Since the 1970s, McFarland (→ISBN), page 181:

     […] and the imposing images of her pioneer, but now diabetic and near-blind father, Furman Temple (Ralph Waite) and her Southernly genteel theatrical mother,  […]

   • 2019, James T Sears, Lonely Hunters: An Oral History Of Lesbian And Gay Southern Life, 1948-1968, Routledge (→ISBN)

     The Southerners later convened in Birmingham to organize the States' Rights party, selecting Senator Strom Thurmond […] It wasn't a Southernly reception.