redly

comparative more redly · superlative most redly

1. In a red manner.

   […]you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon […]

   1979 October 12, Douglas Adams, chapter 3, in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, London: Pan Books, →ISBN

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   Beams, rods, and lances of energy flamed and flared; planes and pencils cut, slashed, and stabbed; defensive screens glowed redly or flashed suddenly into intensely brilliant, coruscating incandescence.

   1948, Edward Elmer Smith, Triplanetary : a Tale of Cosmic Adventure

   But there are still two alternative interpretations of such expressions as "sensing red" or "sensing redly." (i) We might define "sensing redly" in such a way that our definiens makes explicit reference to things that are red.

   1994, John Donnelly, Language, Metaphysics, and Death, Fordham Univ Press, →ISBN, page 208