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vernall

vernall is the obsolete spelling of vernal.

Meaning of vernal

Adjective

vernal (comparative more vernal, superlative most vernal)

  1. (formal, literary) Pertaining to or occurring in spring.
    • For as a vernall Larke, but lately drest / In her first Downe, abandoning her nest, / Stretchest her pinions, her small force assayes / Flutters, and fals before her flight shee raise, [...]1633, Thomas Bancroft, The Glvttons Feauer, London: Printed by Iohn Norton, for William Cooke, […], →OCLC; quoted in “Bancroft, (Thomas.)—The Glvttons Feauer. […] 1633.”, in Thomas Corser, editor...
    Synonyms:
    springlike, spring-like, springly
  2. (figuratively, formal, literary) Having characteristics like spring; fresh, young, youthful.
    • When after the long vernal day of life, / Enamour'd more, as more remembrance ſwells / With many a proof of recollected love, / Together down they [the seasons] ſink in ſocial ſleep; [...]a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC, page 44, lines 1168–1171

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Forms of vernall

comparativemore vernall
superlativemost vernall

Questions about vernall

What is vernall the obsolete spelling of?
Vernall is the obsolete spelling of vernal.

Words near vernall in the dictionary

  1. vernalizations
  2. vernalize
  3. vernalized
  4. vernalizes
  5. vernalizing
  6. vernall
  7. vernally
  8. vernant
  9. vernate
  10. vernated
  11. vernates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vernall (page history and authors); vernal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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