Lexicographical Neighbors of Downwardness
Literary usage of Downwardness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Philosophy of Belief by George Douglas Campbell Argyll (1896)
"downwardness means simply the direction in which gravitation exerts the strongest
pull ... Our conception, therefore, of downwardness, although no delusion, ..."
2. The Works of the Duke of Argyll: Containing, The Reign of Law, The Unity of by Duke of George Douglas Campbell Argyll (1884)
"... notions of what is outside and of what is inside of Nature be liable to the
same kind of error which used formerly to affect our notions of downwardness ..."
3. The Unity of Nature by George Douglas Campbell Argyll (1885)
"... notions of what is outside and of what is inside of Nature be liable to the
same kind of error which used formerly to affect our notions of downwardness ..."
4. The Companion by Leigh Hunt (1828)
"If she has not, the downwardness of her spirit will put a vulgar weight in her
feet, let them be naturally as light as a zephyr's. ..."
Other Resources:
