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shimmeringly en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English shimmering Middle English -ly English -ly English shimmeringly From shimmering + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a shimmering manner; while shimmering; so as to shimmer.
   • […] the tank was filled, to within a foot of the top, with shimmeringly brilliant white fluid […] 1931 April, Jack Williamson, “The Lake of Light”, in Astounding Stories, volume 6, number 1, page 104:
   • [The sun] made the window glass waver, shimmeringly twisted what hung beyond it […] 1966, Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, New York: Random House, Part 2, p. 122:
   • The day was shimmeringly hot.
   • […] I caught the occasional sight of water, shimmeringly reflecting the frosty stars; 1857, Georgiana Marion Craik, chapter 2, in Riverston,, volume 1, London: Smith, Elder, page 13:

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