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