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wanly

adv

Etymology

From wan + -ly.

  1. inherited from *wannaz✻ — “dark, swart”
  2. inherited from wann — “dark, dusky”
  3. inherited from wan
  4. suffixed as wanly — “wan + ly”

Definitions

  1. In a wan or pale manner.

    • She has the faded look of a St. James's Street illumination, as it may be seen of an early morning, when half the lamps are out, and the others are blinking wanly, as if they were about to vanish like ghosts before the dawn.
    • […] [he] spent a lot of time wanly imagining how warm and secure marriage must make men feel […]

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