Meanings
nounplenilune (plural plenilunes)
plural plenilunes
- poeticThe full moon.
Whose glory (like a lasting Plenilune) Seems ignorant of what it is to wane
1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC1 more example
And white limbs glitter in the plenilune; / And where a voice more human, more divine, / Commends a brother dead to Proserpine.
1922, Clark Ashton Smith, Desire of Vastness
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Origin
- Latinplēnilūnium
- Englishplenilune
From Latin plēnilūnium, from plēnus (“full”) + lūna (“moon”).
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