verdantly
advEtymology From verdant + -ly.
1
In a verdant manner; in a fashion indicating greenness (green color.)
- Let thy loveliness fade as it will; / And, around the dear ruin each wish of my heart / Would entwine itself verdantly still!1808, “Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms”, in Thomas Moore (lyrics), Irish Melodies:
- 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.1850, Herman Melville, Hawthorne and His Mosses:
2
In a verdant manner; in a fashion indicating greenness (naivety.)
- Synonyms
- greenly