vernant

English[edit]

From Latin vernans, present participle vernare (“to flourish”), from ver (“spring”).

vernant (comparative more vernant, superlative most vernant)

(obsolete) Flourishing, as in spring; vernal.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
  to bring in change / Of seasons to each clime; else had the spring / Perpetual smil'd on earth with vernant flowers, / Equal in days and nights
- 1728, [James] Thomson, Spring. A Poem, […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], and G[eorge] Strahan, […], →OCLC:
  [T]he penetrative Sun […] sets the steaming Power / At large, to wander o'er the vernant Earth, / In various Hues […] .