Noun
The quality of being sonly.
Usage- Uncountable
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In this was evidenced beyond all controversy the divine sonliness of the ever pious Jesus.
May like obedience, confidence, / Truth, sonliness, and heart, / Constellate here, and radiate hence! / Semblance and chill depart!
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Know that He never forgets His children—never says, “My son has made his bed, let him lie on it.” His Fatherhood is infinite. And see how that brings out the sonliness.
While the fatherliness of Lincoln appears, the sonliness of the lad is no less evident.
6. because ye are sons; i.e. God, having given you the position of sons, also gives you the spirit of sonliness.
My mother was a fair-to-see, clever, feeling-rich, spirit-lit being—a kind of oversoul [genius]. I worshipped her for her high how-ths ((qualities)), for the fun it was to live with her. As a fellow-Australian, as a fellow-agin-the-law-man, as a fellow-art-man, I always took her side, in my own heart. This had nothing to do with love, or sonliness.
Better far to regard the moments of lamp-lit peace as an accidentally charming illustration of mother-and-child indicative of nothing except nothing better to do, and displaying nothing except that mothers cannot help enacting motherhood nor sons sonliness.
As this fable suggests, there is not an overwhelming distance separating filial duty (can we speak of sonliness?) from a maimed exercise of self-interest, and ultimately personal disaster, experienced as self-sacrifice.
Norman’s interpretation of sex as a transformation from dailiness to transcendence is persuasive and important. It might be more persuasive, more amenable to Pat, and open up a richer sexual life for Norm, if there were less reliance on consummation and more appreciation of tease and foreplay. That is the issue between Pat and Norm, and that is the issue where Norm’s life could be enlarged by more appreciation of his own sonliness. Tease and foreplay are in the mode of sonship, the mode of expectancy, and, as such, are authentic and pleasurable in themselves, not just as promises of consummation.
The final view in the East can be summarized roughly as follows: a hypostasis is somewhere between a substance and an attribute (e.g., goodness, holiness, etc.). Like an attribute, hypostasis presupposes a substance, and like a substance it has attributes. If hypostasis meant substance, the result would be tritheism. If the word meant attribute (i.e., fatherliness, sonliness), the result would be Sabellianism.
They reveal within a few minutes of conversation the sonliness and fatherliness that has been lying dormant within each of them for lo, so many years.