Moonly vs Sunly - What's the difference?
moonly | sunly |
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Moon; lunar.
*1839 , James Silk Buckingham, John Sterling, Frederick Denison Maurice, The Athenæum :
*1888 , Hiram Erastus Butler, The Esoteric :
*1983 , Vy?sa, Vi?van?tha Cakravartin, Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati, Srimad Bh?gavatam of Sri Krishnadvaip?yana Vy?sa :
(by extension) Lunatic.
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Sun; solar.
* 1874 , Lew Wallace, The fair God :
* 1907 , Harper's magazine:
* 2001 , Carl M. Franklin, Carolyn Craig Franklin: Favorite Poems, Quotes and Hymns :
(by extension in contrast with moonly) Sane.
* 1964 , Norman Friedman, E. E. Cummings; the growth of a writer :
In a sunly manner.
* 1863 , James Wallis, David King, The British millennial harbinger :
Sunly is a related term of moonly.
As adjectives the difference between moonly and sunly
is that moonly is of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Moon; lunar while sunly is of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Sun; solar.As an adverb sunly is
in a sunly manner.moonly
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- Here and there were young moonly faces selling refreshments.
- Then, the regenerative process will be changed; the moonly' changes will begin to go the reverse way around the zodiac. Ladies will observe that the time of their ' moonly weakness will come one sign earlier or about two and a half days [...]
- When the Gopis looked towards the fruit-laden trees lit up with the moonly light, the Gallant-lover remarked, "fruits I alone can reward and this is best congenial atmosphere to beg to to Me.
sunly
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- 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.
- "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."
- She agreed with Mark Twain that it "is the peacefulest, restfulest, sunliest , balmiest, dreamiest haven of refuge [...] the surface of the earth can offer."
- [...] 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)- Hopes that beam the sunliest , Like the wavelet's silver crest, [...]