ebonly

adv

adv

Etymology ebon + -ly

Poetic, Rare Blackly.

[…] softly illumined by the mild heat-lightnings and ground-lightnings, that wove their wonderfulness without, in the unsearchable air of that ebonly warm and most noiseless summer night.1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
For the trees are columns which ebonly support / A crypt of hollow silence, a subliminal thought, […]1953, Cecil Day Lewis, An Italian Visit:

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