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sullied

adj
/ˈsʌliːd/UK/ˈsʌlid/US

Etymology

From sully + -ied (suffix forming participial adjectives and past participal forms of verbs ending in -y).

  1. derived from *sūl-✻
  2. inherited from *sulwōn✻
  3. inherited from sylian
  4. inherited from sulen
  5. formed as sullied — “sully + -ied”

Definitions

  1. Stained, soiled.

  2. Defiled, tainted.

    • O that this too too ſallied fleſh vvould melt, / Thavv and reſolue it ſelfe into a devve, […]

  3. simple past and past participle of sully

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at sullied. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01sullied02soiled03defiled04dirty05unclean06impure07pure08unsullied

A definitional loop anchored at sullied. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at sullied

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA