Sunly vs Sully - What's the difference?
sunly | sully |
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 :
to soil or stain; to dirty
* Roscommon
to damage or corrupt
* Atterbury
To become soiled or tarnished.
* Francis Bacon
As an adjective sunly
is of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the sun; solar.As an adverb sunly
is in a sunly manner.As a verb sully is
to soil or stain; to dirty.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, [...]
sully
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
- He did not wish to sully his hands with gardening.
- statues sullied yet with sacrilegious smoke
- He did not wish to sully his reputation with an ill-mannered comment.
- no spots to sully the brightness of this solemnity
- Silvering will sully and canker more than gilding.