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单词 shimmering
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shimmeringn.

Etymology: < shimmer v.1 + -ing suffix1. Compare (Middle) Low German schêmering, Middle High German schemerung twilight, German schimmerung coruscation.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈshimmering.
The action of shimmer v.1
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the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [noun] > gleam, glimmer, or flicker > gleaming, glimmering, or flickering
leaming1387
shimmeringc1405
gleamingc1440
glimmeringc1440
skimmeringc1440
glimpsing1563
gloringa1652
flickering1816
glancing1832
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 377 A litel shymeryng [v.r. schemeryng] of a light.
1623 Bp. J. Hall Great Impostor 14 The..blinde man that thought he now saw a shimmering of the Sunne-beames.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) ix. 64 Looking toward the shore, I observed a sort of shimmering, as of the heated air above a stove.
1868 A. Helps Realmah iii Kissed into ripples by the shimmering of moonlight.
a1871 W. S. Dugdale tr. Dante Purgatorio (1883) i. 9 I discerned the shimmering of the sea.
figurative.1880 Todhunter Shelley vii. 199 It is a weak shimmering of forced fun.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

shimmeringadj.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈshimmering.
That shimmers.
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the world > matter > light > intensity of light > [adjective] > bright
shininga900
lighteOE
lightlyOE
sheenOE
torhtOE
shirea1000
steepa1000
shimmeringc1000
brightOE
strongOE
clear1297
fair?a1300
bright-shininga1387
merrya1393
skirea1400
lucident14..
shimc1400
staringc1400
luculentc1420
splendent1474
illuminousc1485
lucentc1500
bloominga1522
sheer1565
prelucent1568
faculent1575
splendant1578
lucid1591
neat1591
shine1596
translucent1596
well-lighted1606
nitid1615
lucible1623
dilucid1653
translucid1657
hard1660
the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [adjective] > gleaming, glimmering, or flickering
levininga1340
leaming1387
gloringa1400
gleamingc1400
glimpsing1551
shimmering1558
glooming1579
brandishing1581
gleamy1593
glancing1596
glimmering1600
flickering1608
flashing1616
blinking1681
glimmerous1793
skimmeringa1800
aglimmer1828
agleam1854
aglint1871
aglance1880
glinting1883
shimmery1883
glimmery1906
c1000 Gl. Prud. in Germania (N.S.) XI. 401/10 Scymriendes wæles, cerulei gurgitis.
c1230 Hali Meid. 31 Þat eadi trume of schimerinde meidenes.
a1400–50 Wars Alex. 1544 Shemerand shaftis of the shire son.
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 80 Wyth schymeryng schene ful schrylle þay schynde.
c1440 York Myst. i. 69 My schewyng es schemerande and schynande.
1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos vi. Q 4 In shimring shadowe darck and thinne.
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 119* If some little shimering light appeare at a little creuise.
1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 229 There is some shimmering light in all.
1840 E. Cook Melia & Other Poems 151 The towering hill, the shimmering rill.
1874 J. A. Symonds Sketches Italy & Greece (1898) I. vii. 124 The plain..basking in the hazy shimmering heat.
1881 Macmillan's Mag. 43 345 The soft brilliancy of her toilet had the look of shimmering plumage.
figurative.1880 E. White Certainty in Relig. 34 The vague and shimmering atmosphere of local and chronological detail.

Draft additions 1993

ˈshimmeringly adv.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [adverb] > in a gleaming, glimmering, or flickering manner
glimmeringly1561
aglimmer1840
flickeringly1840
gleamingly1847
agleam1867
dancingly1892
aglint1905
a-shimmer1926
shimmeringly1934
1934 in N. Webster Dict.
1979 Washington Post 15 June c3/1 The weather was shimmeringly perfect.
1988 Los Angeles Times 23 Mar. vi. 5/1 ‘Starfish’, the group's new album—propelled by the shimmeringly psychedelic single, ‘Under the Milky Way’—is looking like the breakthrough for the band.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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