Ebonly

adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    Blackly. poetic, rare

    "[…] 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."

Example

More examples

"[…] 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."

Etymology

ebon + -ly

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