Word.ws English Dictionary

deaconly

deaconly adjective: resembling or befitting a deacon.

Adjective

deaconly (comparative more deaconly, superlative most deaconly)

  1. Resembling or befitting a deacon.
    • As one who would not be balked in his determination to spend Sunday in deaconly pursuits, he had set off along the walk.1923, George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken, The Smart Set: A Magazine of Cleverness, volume 72, page 26

Forms of deaconly

comparativemore deaconly
superlativemost deaconly

Origin of deaconly

From deacon + -ly.

Questions about deaconly

What does deaconly mean?
Deaconly means resembling or befitting a deacon.
What part of speech is deaconly?
Deaconly is an adjective.

Words near deaconly in the dictionary

  1. deaconess-house
  2. deaconess-houses
  3. deaconesses
  4. deaconhood
  5. deaconing
  6. deaconly
  7. deaconries
  8. deaconry
  9. deacons
  10. deaconship
  11. deaconships

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: deaconly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “deaconly.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/deaconly. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.