downward vs upwardly

downward

adj
  • Located at a lower level. 

  • Moving, sloping or oriented downward. 

adv
  • At a lower level. 

  • Southward. 

  • Toward a lower level, whether in physical space, in a hierarchy, or in amount or value. 

upwardly

adv
  • Towards a higher level, position or status. 

  • In an upward manner. 

How often have the words downward and upwardly occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )