amethystine

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1. Like amethyst, especially in colour; violet-purple.

   His cubic forms phosphoric Fluor prints, / Or rays in spheres his amethystine tints.

   1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 80

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   Certainly […] no spot more dazzlingly becircled with blue seas, amethystine peaks, and islets magically scattered on pellucid water, could have been chosen for the greatest naval battle of modern times.

   1881, James Albert Harrison, Spain, page 499