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verdancy|ˈvɜːdənsɪ|
[See verdant a. and -ancy.]
1. The quality, condition, or character of being verdant; greenness.
1631May tr. Barclay's Mirr. Mindes i. 39 But the greatest delight is, that soe faire a verdancy is almost distinguished into diuerse colours. Ibid. 100 England abounding in rich pastures..doth euery where delight the eyes of the beholders with a most beautifull verdancy. 1882Gd. Words 608 Yellow freckles in some leaves may bestrew a surface of unfaded verdancy. 1888Harper's Mag. July 220 We see..the same wonderful varieties of verdancy.
†b. transf. Freshness of appearance. Obs.—1
1678Norris Coll. Misc. (1699) 368 Had not the Youth and Verdancy of her Face contradicted the ripeness of her Discoursings, you would have thought her well in years.
2. fig. Innocence, inexperience; rawness, simplicity.
1849W. S. Mayo Kaloolah xxxvii, True, in the verdancy of youthful sentiment, many a one has shrunk from the profane association of ruby lips with the processes of mastication and deglutition. 1863Baily's Mag. Jan. 358 Alas for my verdancy! |