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ebonly en · ADV

Etymology

ebon + -ly

Meanings

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

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