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Definition of Auntly
1. of or suggesting an aunt [adj -LIER, -LIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Auntly
Literary usage of Auntly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Utopia by Thomas More, Joseph Rawson Lumby (1908)
"And thus disple[s]auntly departed they. Then tooke Sir Tho. Moore his boate
towardes his house at Chelsey, wherein by the way he was very merrie, ..."
2. Life and Correspondence of Theodore Parker: Minister of the Twenty-eighth by John Weiss (1864)
"Give my heartiest congratulations to the young people, and all the good wishes
your auntly feelings will suggest. Of I saw an admirable piece of poetry from ..."
3. Early English Text Society by Early English Text Society (1868)
"... to come to the «re JJJ " aud dre™ while and there to sy tt or stand / to his
pw-sone pies- he wain by. auntly, and ye euer redy to ..."
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