Sunly

adj, adv

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Sun; solar.

    "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."

  2. 2
    Sane. broadly

    "[...] 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
  1. 1
    In a sunly manner.

    "Hopes that beam the sunliest, Like the wavelet's silver crest, [...]"

Synonyms

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solarsolar

Example

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"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."

Etymology

From Middle English sonnelych, sunnelich, from Old English sunlīċ (“of the sun, solar”). Equivalent to sun + -ly.

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