sunly

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sunly

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

adjective sunlier · more sunly · sunliest · most sunly

  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. broadly, in contrast with moonly 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 [...]

adverb sunlier · more sunly · sunliest · most sunly

  1. In a sunly manner. Hopes that beam the sunliest, Like the wavelet's silver crest, [...]

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@misc{sunly_2026,
  title = {sunly},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sunly},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}