greenth

[ greenth ]

noun

1. green growth; verdure.

Word History and Origins

Origin of greenth¹

First recorded in 1745–55; green + -th ¹

Example Sentences

“The elms have a faint suspicion that spring is coming; the willows only are quite sure of it,” she said, noting their tender greenth which formed a soft blur of color, the only color in all the gray landscape.

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"For," says Lewes incidentally in a letter, "Mrs. Lewes never seems at home except under a broad sweep of sky and the greenth of the uplands round her."

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Overhead was a brilliantly blue sky with here and there slow-sailing white clouds whose soft shadows came and passed, silent and entrancing, over the greenth of the prairie.

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Neatness and greenth are so essential in my opinion to the country, that in France, where I see nothing but chalk and dirty peasants, I seem in a terrestrial purgatory that is neither town or country.

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Would Heaven I kenned what quarter or what land * Homes thee, and      in what house and tribe thou art An fount of life thou drain in greenth of rose, * While drink I      tear drops for my sole desert?

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