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countable and uncountable, plural amaranthines
A dark reddish-purple colour. quotations examples
The giantesses lift arms like the trunks of sycamores, each finger tipped with an amaranthine talon.
1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter VIII, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, page 72
The amaranth flower. quotations examples
Ah! when the eternal morning dawns,And amaranthines shall displace the thorns […]
1857, Eleanor Duckworth, Milly Wentworth, Poems and Sketches, page 65
comparative more amaranthine, superlative most amaranthine
Of a dark reddish purple colour. examples
Unfading, eternal, immortal, infinite. quotations examples
[…] The angelick blastFilled all the regions: from their blisful bowersOf amarantine shade, fountain or spring,By the waters of life, where’er they satIn fellowships of joy, the sons of lightHasted, resorting to the summons high
1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
Ah! is Thy love indeedA weed, albeit an amaranthine weed,Suffering no flowers except its own to mount?
1893, Francis Thompson, The Hound of Heaven
“Fuchsia,” said the Doctor, “come along this evening and I’ll give you a tonic which you must make her take every day. By all that’s amaranthine you really must. […] ”
1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode
Relating to the mythical amaranth flower that never fades. examples
Relating to, or having the form of plants of the genus Amaranthus. examples