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vernant

vernant adjective: flourishing, as in spring; vernal.

Adjective

vernant (comparative more vernant, superlative most vernant)

  1. (obsolete) Flourishing, as in spring; vernal.
    • to bring in change / Of seasons to each clime; else had the spring / Perpetual smil'd on earth with vernant flowers, / Equal in days and nights1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
    • [T]he penetrative Sun […] sets the steaming Power / At large, to wander o'er the vernant Earth, / In various Hues […].a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC

Forms of vernant

comparativemore vernant
superlativemost vernant

Origin of vernant

From Latin vernans, present participle vernare (“to flourish”), from ver (“spring”).

Questions about vernant

What does vernant mean?
Vernant means flourishing, as in spring; vernal.
What part of speech is vernant?
Vernant is an adjective.

Words near vernant in the dictionary

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

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