Sonly vs Sunly - What's the difference?
sonly | sunly |
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a son.
*2003 , Calvin Miller, A Hunger for the Holy :
*2008 , Rik Van Nieuwenhove, Rob Faesen, H. Rolfson, Late Medieval Mysticism of the Low Countries :
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 sonly and sunly
is that sonly is of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a son while sunly is of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the sun; solar.As an adverb sunly is
in a sunly manner.sonly
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- There's something sonly' in each human being; but how well he hides it, and how unskillful we are at finding it! This "something ' sonly " is the vacuum of our hearts — a yearning emptiness that strains to be filled with Christ.
- And also, if the Father were not the Father, then the Son would not have his sonly name.
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, [...]