Wiktionary
netherward
a. 1 Of or pertaining to the downward or lower part of something; lower; bottom. 2 lowly. adv. downward.
Usage examples of "netherward".
Europe has now sunk netherward to its far-off position as in the Fore Scene, and it is beheld again as a prone and emaciated figure of which the Alps form the vertebrae, and the branching mountainchains the ribs, the Spanish Peninsula shaping the head of the ecorche.
I just wanted to keep busy, moving forward through the world, not letting it bog me down, resisting the netherward pull as Bear did, all the way to the end.