verdantly

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English

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Etymology

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From verdant +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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verdantly (comparative more verdantly, superlative most verdantly)

  1. In a verdant manner; in a fashion indicating greenness (green color.)
    • 1808, “Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms”, in Thomas Moore (lyrics), Irish Melodies:
      Let thy loveliness fade as it will; / And, around the dear ruin each wish of my heart / Would entwine itself verdantly still!
    • 1850, Herman Melville, Hawthorne and His Mosses:
      With that she left me, and soon returned with a volume, verdantly bound, and garnished with a curious frontispiece in green,—nothing less, than a fragment of real moss cunningly pressed to a fly-leaf.
  2. In a verdant manner; in a fashion indicating greenness (naivety.)

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