deaconly
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]deaconly (comparative more deaconly, superlative most deaconly)
- Resembling or befitting a deacon.
- 1923, George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken, The Smart Set: A Magazine of Cleverness, volume 72, page 26:
- As one who would not be balked in his determination to spend Sunday in deaconly pursuits, he had set off along the walk.