ebonly

English

Etymology

ebon +‎ -ly

Adverb

ebonly (comparative more ebonly, superlative most ebonly)

  1. (poetic, rare) Blackly.
    • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
      […] 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.
    • 1953, Cecil Day Lewis, An Italian Visit
      For the trees are columns which ebonly support / A crypt of hollow silence, a subliminal thought, […]
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