Definition of "verdantly"

Let thy loveliness fade as it will; / And, around the dear ruin each wish of my heart / Would entwine itself verdantly still!

1808, “Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms”, in Thomas Moore (lyrics), Irish Melodies

With that she left me, and soon returned with a volume, verdantly bound, and garnished with a curious frontispiece in green,—nothing less, than a fragment of real moss cunningly pressed to a fly-leaf.

1850, Herman Melville, Hawthorne and His Mosses