1774 S. Dunn New & Gen. Introd. Pract. Astron. 166 Horizons under a south westwardly and north eastwardly direction.

1847 J. MacGregor Progress of Amer. II. 405 The Kaskaskia rises near the middle of the state, and after a south-westwardly course of 250 miles, enters the Mississippi.

1891 G. Hill With Beduins iii. xiv. 278 We encamped some hours further on in a south-westwardly direction from the ford.

1916 Rep. Courts of Appeals Ohio 4 342 The said tracks will intersect the west line of Market Avenue South at a point about five feet southwardly from the southwestwardly corner of said premises of the plaintiff.

1995 E. S. Miller Civil War Sea Battles vii. 85 Extending several miles in a southwestwardly direction from Cape Fear..Frying Pan Shoals were (and still are) a menace to navigation.

1723 E. Stone tr. N. Bion Constr. & Principal Uses Math. Instruments viii. i. 220 The Centers of upper Dials declining South-westwardly must be likewise upwards.

1796 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 86 350 Under which it is to be extended south-westwardly by a subterraneous cut or tunnel.

1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon i. 43 Sand-hills extend south-westwardly from the mouth of the river Axe.

1868 R. A. Peacock Physic. & Hist. Evidences 20 The trees extend from about where the brook issues from the pier wall, south-westwardly and parallel to the wall.

1905 E. Channing Hist. U.S. I. i. 20 The fleet sailed from Palos and steered southwestwardly for the Canary Islands.

1952 H. J. Carman & H. C. Syrett Hist. Amer. People xvi. 415 Stretching southwestwardly from Baltimore and Washington through Richmond, it reaches a width of two hundred miles in North Carolina.

2004 Bangor (Maine) Daily News (Nexis) 22 Nov. a8 Inexorably, the population center is moving southwestwardly, and with it, the clout of the Electoral College.