ebonly

English

Etymology

ebon +‎ -ly

Adverb

ebonly (comparative more ebonly, superlative most ebonly)

1. (poetic, rare) Blackly.
   • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:

     […] softly illumined by the mild heat-lightnings and ground-lightnings, that wove their wonderfulness without, in the unsearchable air of that ebonly warm and most noiseless summer night.

   • 1953, Cecil Day Lewis, An Italian Visit:

     For the trees are columns which ebonly support / A crypt of hollow silence, a subliminal thought, […]