reliquarylike
reliquarylike adjective: resembling a reliquary.
Adjective
reliquarylike (comparative more reliquarylike, superlative most reliquarylike)
- Resembling a reliquary.
- Even armies at war recognized her importance and opened frontiers to allow these reliquarylike dolls to pass.1989, Charles Otto Zieseniss, Katell Le Bourhis, The Age of Napoleon, page 26
- The sculptures that Mr. Outterbridge called his “Containment Series” from the late 1960s were reliquarylike boxes hammered from cut and flattened tin cans with charred wood and rusted nails sealed inside but visible behind sheets of glass.2009 May 13, Holland Cotter, “A Life, From a Southern Farm Town to Watts, in Castoff Objects”, in New York Times
Forms of reliquarylike
| comparative | more reliquarylike |
|---|---|
| superlative | most reliquarylike |
Origin of reliquarylike
From reliquary + -like.
Questions about reliquarylike
- What does reliquarylike mean?
- Reliquarylike means resembling a reliquary.
- What part of speech is reliquarylike?
- Reliquarylike is an adjective.
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