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English
Etymology
From silver + -ly.
Adverb
silverly (comparative more silverly, superlative most silverly)
- (poetic) With a silver appearance or sound.
1818, John Keats, Endymion:"This river does not see the naked sky, Till it begins to progress silverly Around the western border of the wood, Whence, from a certain spot, its winding flood Seems at the distance like a crescent moon: And in that nook, the very pride of June, Had I been used to pass my weary eves; The rather for the sun unwilling leaves So dear a picture of his sovereign power, And I could witness his most kingly hour, When he doth lighten up the golden reins, And paces leisurely down amber plains His snorting four.
1888, Archibald Lampman, Among the Millet and Other Poems:And when night comes, his spirits with chill feet, Winged with white mirth and noiseless mockery, Across men's pallid windows peer and fleet, And smiling silverly Draw with mute fingers on the frosted glass Quaint fairy shapes of iced witcheries, Pale flowers and glinting ferns and frigid trees And meads of mystic grass, Graven in many an austere phantasy.
1907, Henry Van Dyke, Days Off:There was a tiny wren singing among the Balm-o'-Gilead trees on the opposite shore, with a voice that rose silverly above the noise of the rapids.
1921, Amy Lowell, Sword Blades and Poppy Seed:The sun is well In the core of a sky Domed silverly.