Citations:blossomest

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English citations of blossomest

Adjective: "an irregular superlative form of blossomy"

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  • 1871 — Myron B. Benton, "A Midwinter-Day", Appletons' Journal of Literature, Science and Art, 25 February 1871, page 227:
    I fancy that, in the vital kernel of that inanimate ball of fur, which Audubon says he rolls himself into, he is all the while dreaming the sweetest of dreams — living in the rankest, blossomest, honeyest clover, fenced about with delightful tumbled-down stone-walls, []
  • 1950 — Judson Crews, A Poet's Breath, Motive Book Shop (1950), unknown page:
    The winter that strikes the blossomest season
    is the one most dreaded for wanton destruction
  • 1994Dennis Potter, 15 March 1994, an interview with Melvyn Bragg. Broadcast by Channel 4 on 5 April 1994
    ... instead of saying "Oh that's nice blossom" ... looking at it through the window when I'm writing, I see it is the whitest, frothiest, blossomest blossom that there ever could be, and I can see it.
  • 1998 April 14, [nimbus], “Re: about fear”, in alt.dreams.castaneda[1] (Usenet):
    The cherry trees are at their frothy blossomest and the vivid green of new growth lights even the darkest corners.
  • 2000 February 14, Barbara Martin, “Re: Nat's holiday”, in alt.support.arthritis[2] (Usenet):
    In my opinion, one of the nicest sights wil[sic] be in the Cotswolds, just north of Oxford, where the blossom is the blossomest, the rolling countryside is the prettiest and the cottages are the most picturesque.

Verb: "(archaic) second-person singular simple present form of blossom"

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  • 1840 — Francis Hastings Doyle, "To —", in Miscellaneous Verses, Blatch and Lampert (1840), page 50:
    Like some young flower, thou blossomest,
    Without a fear on earth;
  • 1847 — George J. O. Allman, "On the Sea-Shore", The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, October 1847, page 218:
    While yet is cold and drear the wintry Earth
    Thou blossomest — and on thy cheek so pale,
  • 1851 — "Literature and Science", Allen's Indian Mail, 17 June 1851, page 359:
    Sometimes thou blossomest as a lovely flower, or thou art a bee and goest thy way buzzing; []
  • 1861 — J. T. Burgess, Life Scenes and Social Sketches: A Book for English Hearths and Homes, W. Kent & Co. (1861), page 33:
    You live and you die — cold winter is your tomb; but, when spring comes, with its genial showers, and dissolves thy bonds, thou arisest and blossomest more sweetly than before.
  • 1897 — John B. Tabb, "An April Bloom", in Lyrics, Boston Copeland and Day (1897), page 102:
    Till now, as Nature's pulses move,
    Thou blossomest, a breath of Love,
  • 1900 — Norman Gale, "To a Robin", The Literary World, 21 December 1900:
    With breast like a rose on the coping
    Thou blossomest, sturdily hoping
  • 1907 — Louis M. Elshemus, "Mollie", in All About Girls: Unpoetical and Poetical Maidens, Eastman Lewis (1907), page 163:
    That blossomest above the calm Pacific's beach
  • 1987 — Rabindra Nath Sarkar, The Latest Revelation in the East, Saksrit Pustak Bhandar (1987), page 58:
    And, the more thou blossomest the more my ego meets with the quintessence of its true meaning.