whitely
advEtymology From white + -ly.
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In a white manner.
- […] she opened a door which disclosed a staircase so whitely scrubbed that the grain of the wood was wellnigh sodden away by such cleansing.1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, “chapter 2”, in The Woodlanders […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- it is the autumn of a year: When through the thin air stooped with fear, across the harvest whitely peer empty of surprise death’s faultless eyes1922, E. E. Cummings, “Songs, III”, in Tulips and Chimneys, New York: Liveright, published 1976, page 12:
2 more examples
- an enemy aeroplane flew part of the way with us, and bomb after bomb burst flaming in the fields alongside, until ‘wished morn’ whitely appeared.1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 161:
- Were I to murmur “Yes,” and then “How true, my dear,” and “Yes,” again, And wear my eyes discreetly down, And tremble whitely at your frown, And keep my words unquestioning— My love, you’d run like anything!1928, Dorothy Parker, “Dilemma”, in Sunset Gun, Garden City, NY: Sun Dial, published 1941, page 63: