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sunly en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English sonnelych, sunnelich, from Old English sunlīċ (“of the sun, solar”). Equivalent to sun + -ly.

Meanings

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Sun; solar.
   • She agreed with Mark Twain that it "is the peacefulest, restfulest, sunliest, balmiest, dreamiest haven of refuge [...] the surface of the earth can offer." 2001, Carl M. Franklin, Carolyn Craig Franklin: Favorite Poems, Quotes and Hymns:
   • "Nay, The sun is single, but her eyes are twain, — Twain firmaments that mock with heavenlier hue The heavens' less lordly and less gracious blue, And lit with sunlier sunlight through and through." 1907, Harper's magazine:
   • Aside he flung his sunly symbols. Like a falling star, from the Vale of Gods He dropp'd, like a falling star shot through the Shoreless space; like a golden morning reach'd The earth, —reach'd the lake. 1874, Lew Wallace, The fair God:
2. (broadly, in contrast with moonly) Sane.
   • [...] than to win less never than alive less bigger than the least begin less littler than forgive it is most sane and sunly and more it cannot die than all the sky which only is higher than the sky [...] 1964, Norman Friedman, E. E. Cummings; the growth of a writer:

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starly · earthly · moonly

sunly en · ADV

Etymology

From Middle English sonnelych, sunnelich, from Old English sunlīċ (“of the sun, solar”). Equivalent to sun + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a sunly manner.
   • Hopes that beam the sunliest, Like the wavelet's silver crest, [...] 1863, James Wallis, David King, The British millennial harbinger:

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