deep greenn.adj.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxvii. 627 The pretious stone Heliotropium..is a deepe greene in Manner of a leeke..garnished with veins of bloud.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. lvi. 359 The subject is all alive to me, and my gayer fancy, like the sun-beams, will irradiate it, and turn the solemn deep green into a brighter verdure.

1834 W. A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I. x. 134 The rich and variegated flowers of all hues, sizes, and colours, set amid the deep green of the rich shrubbery.

1902 C. J. Cornish Naturalist on Thames 179 The deep greens of the summer grass.

1999 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 20 Feb. (Scene Suppl.) 3/2 What—or even who—among us wouldn't profit from being power-washed and coated in a fresh layer of beige, maroon and deep green?

1988 Guardian 30 Mar. 19/3 The green movement is indeed a vital strand in the new dissent because its attack on consumerism and growth colour the thinking in many other groups. A deep green.., writer on the coming economic collapse.., is well aware that enterprise is important.

1996 Economist (Electronic ed.) 17 Feb. ‘Deep greens’ are not moved by warm words. Demonstrators converged on Newbury from all over the country on February 11th to protest against a new by-pass.

2000 J. Radcliffe Green Politics 12 Deep greens may see industrialism itself as the cause of non-democratic and authoritarian processes.

1609 W. Shakespeare Louers Complaint in Sonnets sig. K4^v The deepe greene Emrald in whose fresh regard, Weake sights their sickly radience do amend.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. x. 323 Why Garlick, Molyes, and Porrets have white roots, deep green leaves, and blacke seeds? View more context for this quotation

1788 J. H. de Magellan tr. A. F. Cronstedt Syst. Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 148 A deep green cockle-spar.

1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales II. 211 He wore a deep green hussar jacket.

1934 Amer. Home July 88/1 A deep green linoleum covers the floor.

1999 Antique Dealer & Collectors Guide Apr. 9/1 An important late C19 French Clock Garniture in deep green malachite with ornate ormolu mounts.

1988 Guardian 15 Nov. 2/5 Chief Palakan was invited to the Commons by Sir Richard Body, the ‘deep green’ Tory MP..who yesterday condemned the Midlands and Lloyds banks for co-financing the [dam building] project.

1991 New Scientist 16 Feb. 47/3 It is no surprise that ‘deep green’ environmental groups..find it difficult to communicate their concerns to businesses and governments.

1996 LSE Mag. Winter 18/2 There is the deep green ethos of ‘being at one with nature’, so that a proper appreciation of the landscape can only be achieved through authentic experience of it.

1999 M. Redclift & C. Sage in A. Hurrell & N. Woods Inequality, Globalization, & World Polit. v. 128 The discussion of ‘sustainable development’ or ‘green development’..is often polarized between the respective value of technological transformations (ecological modernization) and more thoroughgoing cultural changes (‘deep green’ solutions).