Meanings
comparative more luxuriantly · superlative most luxuriantly
- In a luxuriant manner; with luxuriance.
[…] here and there a gray rock cropped out of the ground, and over it the yellow stone-crop and scarlet-leaved crane's-bill grew luxuriantly.
1851, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, The Moorland Cottage2 more examples
Hortense, with her rich chestnut locks so luxuriantly knotted, plaited, twisted, as if she did not know how to dispose of all their abundance, with her vermillion lips, damask cheek, and roguish laughing eye.
a. 1856 (date written), Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter XI, in A[rthur] B[ell] Nicholls, editor, The Professor, a Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], published 1857, →OCLC, page 187It was not the kind of face he had expected to see at all. It was young, smooth-skinned, heart-shaped, surrounded by an aura of vivid titian hair that coiled luxuriantly.
1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 80
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