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Professory vs Professorly - What's the difference?

professory | professorly |

As adjectives the difference between professory and professorly

is that professory is of or relating to a professor; professorial while professorly is professorial; having the manner or appearance of a professor or professors.

professory

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to a professor; professorial.
    • (Francis Bacon)
    (Webster 1913)

    professorly

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Professorial; having the manner or appearance of a professor or professors.
  • * 1973 January 21, Grace Glueck, " A Most Zeitgeist-y Affair," New York Times (retrieved 10 April 2013):
    • The decorous, professorly group known as the College Art Association will descend on us this week for its 61st annual convention.
  • * 1993 June 2, "Fine threads don't mean top profs, Tech study says," Roanoke Times :
    • Of course the subjects weren't really professors, Davis said, just professorly looking men she had spotted.
  • * 2005 February 22, , " Larger than life, a mystery in death," Tampa Bay Times (retrieved 10 April 2013):
    • So, after doing my professorly duty and dispensing wisdom, I hang up with the reporter and stand in the middle of the dark bedroom.
  • * 2009 January 12, Jon Blyth, " Jimmy Carr saved my life", The Guardian (UK) (retrieved 10 April 2013):
    • Reading The God Delusion , on the other hand, all I did was nod furiously and point at myself, and perform a little professorly strut around the train carriage.
  • * 2011 July 5, Eleanor Henderson, " Tumultuous Tales Of Loathing And Wit," National Public Radio (retrieved 10 April 2013):
    • Often compared to Bellow and Roth, his prose reminds me more of Chabon's, but perhaps more avuncular, more, yes, professorly , shaping the male Jewish consciousness.