Adjective: sonly
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | sonlier |
| Superlative | sonliest |
Perifrastic
Sample Sentences
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There's something sonly in each human being; but how well he hides it, and how unskillful we are at finding it! This "something sonly" is the vacuum of our hearts — a yearning emptiness that strains to be filled with Christ. [2003, Calvin Miller, A Hunger for the Holy:]
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And also, if the Father were not the Father, then the Son would not have his sonly name. [2008, Rik Van Nieuwenhove, Rob Faesen, H. Rolfson, Late Medieval Mysticism of the Low Countries:]
Adjectives inflected like sonly
syrupy,
seemly,
seggsy,
snuffy,
snippy,
snitty,
sniffy,
snotty,
snouty,
snobby,
snoozy,
snooty,
snazzy,
snappy,
snarky,
snarly,
snassy,
snaily,
snacky,
snaggy, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English sonely, equivalent to son + -ly. Compare Dutch zoonlijk, German söhnlich, Swedish sonlig. See: Swedish Adjectives '
sonlig'.