Nunly vs Sunly - What's the difference?
nunly | sunly |
Like a nun; nunlike.
*2009 , Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 397:
*:She pushes towards the king, and for a second he sees him through her eyes: a blur of red-gold and flushed skin, a ready, priapic body, a hand like a ham that stretches out to take her by her nunly elbow. 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 :
As adjectives the difference between nunly and sunly
is that nunly is like a nun; nunlike while sunly is of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the sun; solar.As an adverb sunly is
in a sunly manner.nunly
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Adjective
(en adjective)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, [...]