Lyly

American  

[lil-ee] / ˈlɪl i /

noun

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

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Lyly British  

/ ˈlɪlɪ /

noun

1. John. ?1554–1606, English dramatist and novelist, noted for his two romances, Euphues, or the Anatomy of Wit (1578) and Euphues and his England (1580), written in an elaborate style See also euphuism

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Example Sentences

Her mum, Lyly, got together with a new partner and life at home became a little more chaotic: parties at night, arguments among the family.

From The Guardian • Oct. 31, 2019

Shakespeare’s relative vocabulary size came out exactly in the middle — with John Webster at the top and Shakespeare ensconced between Robert Greene and John Lyly.

From Washington Post • Sep. 4, 2015

Huxley acknowledges the extreme unlikelihood of Ros ever having read Lyly but is nonetheless struck by the strange resemblance in their approaches to language.

From Slate • Jan. 23, 2013

Lyly Mangoto Bukolo presents some of the documents from her asylum case in the U.K.

From Newsweek

From the particular point of view of the historian of the English novel, Lyly with all his absurdities had yet one merit which must be taken into account.

From The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by Jusserand, J. J.