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ebonly

ebonly adverb: blackly.

Adverb

ebonly (comparative more ebonly, superlative most ebonly)

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

Forms of ebonly

comparativemore ebonly
superlativemost ebonly

Origin of ebonly

ebon + -ly

Questions about ebonly

What does ebonly mean?
Ebonly means blackly.
What part of speech is ebonly?
Ebonly is an adverb.

Words near ebonly in the dictionary

  1. ebonization
  2. ebonize
  3. ebonized
  4. ebonizes
  5. ebonizing
  6. ebonly
  7. ebons
  8. ebontree
  9. ebony
  10. ebony boghaunter
  11. ebony boghaunters

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