sunly

adj

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from sunlīċ — “of the sun, solar
  2. inherited from sonnelych

Definitions

  1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Sun

    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.
    • "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."
  2. Sane.

    • [...] 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 [...]
  3. In a sunly manner.

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

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