Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With a faint, glimmering appearance.
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- adverb In a
glimmering manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Darkness thrust itself upon him; and, quivering on the floor, glimmeringly he came back to the light of the room and to the man who was casually touching a match to a cigarette and cautiously keeping an observant eye on him.
CHAPTER XXII 2010
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And just as the fish and the reptile glimmeringly adumbrate man, so do these yearnings and desires adumbrate what man in himself calls "love," spelled all out in capitals.
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Fascinatingly, Darwin himself was glimmeringly close to this, but he stopped just short of making the full connection.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Fascinatingly, Darwin himself was glimmeringly close to this, but he stopped just short of making the full connection.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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The light blue sky of day deepens gradually through twilight into night; the stars shine out of its soft depths with a brilliant though cold effulgence, reflected glimmeringly in the surrounding waters, which flow in quiet stillness on every side.
Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta W. Cope Devereux
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Darkness thrust itself upon him; and, quivering on the floor, glimmeringly he came back to the light of the room and to the man who was casually touching a match to a cigarette and cautiously keeping an observant eye on him.
Chapter 22 1917
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Some terrifying and exalting sense swept him into a new intimacy of understanding as he realized glimmeringly what heights and depths lay about his ceasing to see that car of the guard.
Romance Island Zona Gale 1906
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But the shower ceased and the sun's rays fell glimmeringly.
Idle Comments 1905
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The green drenched woods lay all about his path, bent thick, and the forest drooped glimmeringly.
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The night was dark and windless: the street lit glimmeringly from end to end, lamps, house-windows, and the reflections in the rain-pools all contributing.
The Wrecker 1898
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