blossomest

From blossom +‎ -est.

blossomest

1. Most like a blossom.
   • 1871 February 25, Myron B. Benton, “A Midwinter-Day”, in Appletons' Journal of Literature, Science and Art, 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

   • 1994, Dennis 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, , “Re: about fear”, in alt.dreams.castaneda‎ (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 (Usenet):

     In my opinion, one of the nicest sights wil 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.

• blossomiest

blossomest

1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present indicative of blossom
   • 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;

   • 1861, J. T. Burgess, Life Scenes and Social Sketches: A Book for English Hearths and Homes, W. Kent & Co., 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.

   • 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

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