skyly

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English

Etymology

From sky +‎ -ly.

Adjective

skyly (comparative more skyly, superlative most skyly)

  1. (rare) Of, resembling, or relating to the sky; celestial
    • 1988, Charles Wilson, Australia, 1788-1988: The Creation of a Nation, page 114:
      O sweet Queen-city of the golden South
      Piercing the evening with thy star-like spires,
      Thou wert a witness when I kissed the mouth
      Of her whose eyes outblazed the skyly fires.
    • 1998, Sheldon D. Rose, Group Therapy with Troubled Youth:
      It is not to claim that biology fixes human existence, but rather to claim that "the way of life articulates itself has as much to do with the response of other nonhuman beings, with the currents of the earthly and skyly environment, and with temporal contingencies, as it does with our subjectivist cultural wills."
    • 2012, Stephan Attia, In the Gardens of God, page 390:
      Nightly prayers in the sky,
      Skyly stories linger high []

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