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Sheenly vs Sheerly - What's the difference?

sheenly | sheerly |

As adverbs the difference between sheenly and sheerly

is that sheenly is (poetic|archaic) brightly while sheerly is absolutely; thoroughly; utterly; purely; quite.

sheenly

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • (poetic, archaic) brightly
  • * William Motherwell
    • The bay glitters sheenly in sunlight, / No oar shivers now its clear mirror.
  • * (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
    • Shapes of brightness overlean thee, / With their diadems of youth / Striking on thy ringlets sheenly

    sheerly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Absolutely; thoroughly; utterly; purely; quite
  • * {{quote-news, year=1988, date=October 21, author=George Grass, title=WagnerVision, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=On a sheerly technical plane, the projections used for the backgrounds were very effective, particularly in the third act, where a sunset faded most convincingly. }}
  • (obsolete) at once