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Manner vs Sunly - What's the difference?

manner | sunly |

As a noun manner

is mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion.

As an adjective sunly is

of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Sun; solar.

As an adverb sunly is

in a sunly manner.

manner

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • The treacherous manner of his mournful death.
  • * , chapter=15
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}
  • Characteristic mode of acting, conducting, carrying one's self; bearing; habitual style.
  • * 1661 , , The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
    • During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
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  • Customary method of acting; habit.
  • Carriage; behavior; deportment; also, becoming behavior; well-bred carriage and address.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=6, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.}}
  • The style of writing or thought of an author; characteristic peculiarity of an artist.
  • Certain degree or measure.
  • Sort; kind; style.
  • Standards of conduct cultured and product of mind.

    • Derived terms

    (terms derived from manner) * bad manners * bedside manner * good manners * manner of articulation * mannered * mannerism * mannerist * mannerless * mannerly * overmanner * table manners * to the manner born

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    sunly

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Sun; solar.
  • * 1874 , Lew Wallace, The fair God :
    • 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.
  • * 1907 , Harper's magazine:
    • "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."
  • * 2001 , Carl M. Franklin, Carolyn Craig Franklin: Favorite Poems, Quotes and Hymns :
    • She agreed with Mark Twain that it "is the peacefulest, restfulest, sunliest , balmiest, dreamiest haven of refuge [...] the surface of the earth can offer."
  • (by extension in contrast with moonly) Sane.
  • * 1964 , Norman Friedman, E. E. Cummings; the growth of a writer :
    • [...] 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 [...]

    Adverb

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

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