verdantly

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English

Etymology

verdant +‎ -ly

Adverb

verdantly (comparative more verdantly, superlative most verdantly)

  1. In a verdant manner; in a fashion indicating greenness (green color.)
    • 1850: Herman Melville, Hawthorne and His Mosses [1]
      ...she...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.)

Synonyms

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