ext_34538 ([identity profile] simplyn2deep.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] 1_million_words2025-05-07 10:11 pm

Word of the Day 05/07/25 Amaranthine

Amaranthine (adjective)
amaranthine [ am-uh-ran-thin, -thahyn ]


adjective
1. of or like the amaranth.
2. unfading; everlasting: a woman of amaranthine loveliness.
3. of purplish-red color.

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Origin: First recorded in 1660–70; amaranth + -ine

Example Sentences
They only amaranthine flower on earth Is virtue.
From Project Gutenberg

Thoughts of amaranthine bloom will spring up in the fields ploughed to give food to suffering men.
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No longer can we live without the amaranthine cup.
From Project Gutenberg

At the bottom of this dell the flowers have an amaranthine bloom.
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They led the little one to amaranthine bowers, and wreathed around his temples the flowers that never fade.
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