shimmeringly

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English

Etymology

From shimmering +‎ -ly.

Adverb

shimmeringly (comparative more shimmeringly, superlative most shimmeringly)

  1. In a shimmering manner; while shimmering; so as to shimmer.
    The day was shimmeringly hot.
    • 1857, Georgiana Marion Craik, chapter 2, in Riverston,, 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, New York: Random House, Part 2, p. 122:
      [The sun] made the window glass waver, shimmeringly twisted what hung beyond it []