Definitions for Lyly

Lyly Lyl·y

Spelling: [lil-ee]
IPA: /ˈlɪl i/

Lyly is a 4 letter English word.

You can make 9 anagrams from letters in Lyly (llyy).

Definitions for Lyly

noun

  1. John, 1554?–1606, English writer of romances and plays.

Examples for Lyly

We cannot wonder that Endymion attracted Shakespeare, for it is the most "romantic" of all Lyly's plays.

It was as a novelist that Lyly first came before the world of English letters.

This change is first expressed by Lyly in his second novel and later in his dramas.

Lyly, Congreve, Sheridan, were all men of fashion first and writers of comedy after.

In an audience thus susceptible to innuendo Lyly saw his opportunity.

The use of blank verse had yet to be discovered, and Lyly was to have a hand in this matter also.

Let us first see how Lyly himself came to tread this same pathway.

Lyly was a beginner, and his fault lay in attempting too much.

And here again we must reassert the significance of Lyly's appeal to women.

Latimer also employs the responsive method so frequently used by Lyly.

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