sheener

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A form of sheen — Beautiful, good-looking, attractive, fair; bright, radiant; shiny.

OriginMiddle English schenre ← Old English sċēnra ← Proto-Germanic *skaunizô →
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Meanings

adjective
  1. comparativecomparative form of sheen: more sheen
adverb
  1. comparativecomparative form of sheen: more sheen

    Now St. Margaret is in Paradise, "where she shineth sevenfold sheener than the sun."

    1983, original 1862, William Henry Schofield, English Literature, page 392

Origin

  1. Proto-Germanic*skauniz“shiny; beautiful”
  2. Proto-Germanic*skaunizô
  3. Old Englishsċēnra
  4. Middle Englishschenre
  5. Englishsheener

From Middle English schenre, from Old English sċēnra, sċȳnra, from Proto-Germanic *skaunizô, comparative of Proto-Germanic *skauniz (“shiny; beautiful”), equivalent to sheen + -er.

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