Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • With a faint, glimmering appearance.

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  • adverb In a glimmering manner.

Etymologies

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glimmering +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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.

    The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • But the shower ceased and the sun's rays fell glimmeringly.

    Idle Comments 1905

  • The green drenched woods lay all about his path, bent thick, and the forest drooped glimmeringly.

    English: Composition and Literature 1899

  • 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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