"Southernly" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Southern + -ly.",
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      "form": "more Southernly",
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  "pos": "adv",
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          "ref": "1972, Sh'ma",
          "text": "The community is Southernly polite to newcomers. They'll engage a new face in conversation in the synagogue, which doesn't usually happen elsewhere.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "2011, Andrew B. Leiter, Southerners on Film: Essays on Hollywood Portrayals Since the 1970s, McFarland, page 181",
          "text": "[…] and the imposing images of her pioneer, but now diabetic and near-blind father, Furman Temple (Ralph Waite) and her Southernly genteel theatrical mother, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, James T Sears, Lonely Hunters: An Oral History Of Lesbian And Gay Southern Life, 1948-1968, Routledge",
          "text": "The Southerners later convened in Birmingham to organize the States' Rights party, selecting Senator Strom Thurmond […] It wasn't a Southernly reception.",
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  "word": "Southernly"
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  "etymology_text": "From Southern + -ly.",
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  "pos": "adv",
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          "ref": "1972, Sh'ma",
          "text": "The community is Southernly polite to newcomers. They'll engage a new face in conversation in the synagogue, which doesn't usually happen elsewhere.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Andrew B. Leiter, Southerners on Film: Essays on Hollywood Portrayals Since the 1970s, McFarland, page 181",
          "text": "[…] and the imposing images of her pioneer, but now diabetic and near-blind father, Furman Temple (Ralph Waite) and her Southernly genteel theatrical mother, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, James T Sears, Lonely Hunters: An Oral History Of Lesbian And Gay Southern Life, 1948-1968, Routledge",
          "text": "The Southerners later convened in Birmingham to organize the States' Rights party, selecting Senator Strom Thurmond […] It wasn't a Southernly reception.",
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