Etymology
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From nun + -ly.
Adjective
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nunly (comparative more nunly, superlative most nunly)
- Like a nun; nunlike.
2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 397:She pushes towards the king, and for a second he sees him through her eyes: a blur of red-gold and flushed skin, a ready, priapic body, a hand like a ham that stretches out to take her by her nunly elbow.
