Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being green, especially with growing plants; greenness; verdure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The state or quality of being green; verdure.
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- noun The state or quality of being
green ;verdure .
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Examples
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Neatness and greenth are so essential in my opinion to the country, that in France, where I see nothing but chalk and dirty peasants, I seem in a terrestrial purgatory that is neither town or country.
The Art of Letters Robert Lynd 1914
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She was like a Sun shedding sheen in sky serene, or a full moon at the fullest seen, with brow flower - bright and eyes black and white and beauty-spots fresh as greenth to the sight; brief she was as one of whom the poet saith,
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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An fount of life thou drain in greenth of rose, * While drink I tear drops for my sole desert?
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Imagine a rambling, patchy house, the best part built of gray stone, and red-tiled, a round tower jutting at one of the corners, the mellow darkness of its conical roof surmounted by a weather-cock making an agreeable object either amidst the gleams and greenth of summer or the low-hanging clouds and snowy branches of winter: the ground shady with spreading trees: a great tree flourishing on one side, backward some
Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1849
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I have long been mortified that for these three years you have seen it only in winter: it is now in the height of its greenth, blueth, gloomth, honey-suckle and seringahood.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757
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I will not, however, tell you, that I am Content with your being there, till you have seen it in all its greenth and blueth.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757
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Neatness and greenth are so essential in my opinion to the country, that in France, where I see nothing but chalk and dirty peasants, I seem in a terrestrial purgatory that is neither town nor country.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 Horace Walpole 1757
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The greenth used to take my breath away back when I was living there and flying back and forth from Australia every now and then.
In a strange land 2009
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I tired myself with walking on Friday: the gout came on Saturday in my foot; yesterday I kept my bed till four o'clock, and my room all day-but, with wrapping myself all over with bootikins, have scarce had any pain-my foot swelled immediately, and today I am descended into the blueth and greenth: (76) and though you expect to find that I am paving the way to an excuse, I think I shall be able to be with you on
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757
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