shimmeringly

adv

shimmeringly

adv

Etymology From shimmering + -ly.

1

In a shimmering manner; while shimmering; so as to shimmer.

  • The day was shimmeringly hot.
  • […] I caught the occasional sight of water, shimmeringly reflecting the frosty stars;1857, Georgiana Marion Craik, chapter 2, in Riverston,, volume 1, London: Smith, Elder, page 13:
2 more examples
  • […] the tank was filled, to within a foot of the top, with shimmeringly brilliant white fluid […]1931 April, Jack Williamson, “The Lake of Light”, in Astounding Stories, volume 6, number 1, page 104:
  • [The sun] made the window glass waver, shimmeringly twisted what hung beyond it […]1966, Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, New York: Random House, Part 2, p. 122:

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