vernant

English

Etymology

From Latin vernans, present participle vernare (“to flourish”), from ver (“spring”).

Adjective

vernant (comparative more vernant, superlative most vernant)

1. (obsolete) Flourishing, as in spring; vernal.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     to bring in change / Of seasons to each clime; else had the spring / Perpetual smil'd on earth with vernant flowers, / Equal in days and nights

   • a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:

     [T]he penetrative Sun […] sets the steaming Power / At large, to wander o'er the vernant Earth, / In various Hues […] .