Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pastoral; rustic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Resembling, or becoming to, a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
shepherd ;pastoral ;rustic . - adjective Taking care of a group or flock, as a shepherd does.
Etymologies
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shepherd + -ly
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Examples
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Instead, while knowing escape was an option, he fulfilled his high shepherdly calling.
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I hate the country: I am past the shepherdly age of groves and streams, and am not arrived at that of hating every thing but what I do myself, as building and planting.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Horace Walpole 1757
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