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skyly en · ADJ

Etymology

From sky + -ly.

Meanings

1. (rare) Of, resembling, or relating to the sky; celestial
   • Nightly prayers in the sky, Skyly stories linger high […] 2012, Stephan Attia, In the Gardens of God, page 390:
   • O sweet Queen-city of the golden South Piercing the evening with thy star-like spires, Thou wert a witness when I kissed the mouth Of her whose eyes outblazed the skyly fires. 1988, Charles Wilson, Australia, 1788-1988: The Creation of a Nation, page 114:
   • It is not to claim that biology fixes human existence, but rather to claim that "the way of life articulates itself has as much to do with the response of other nonhuman beings, with the currents of the earthly and skyly environment, and with temporal contingencies, as it does with our subjectivist cultural wills." 1998, Sheldon D. Rose, Group Therapy with Troubled Youth:

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Synonyms

heavenly