luxuriantly

English

Etymology

From luxuriant +‎ -ly.

Adverb

luxuriantly (comparative more luxuriantly, superlative most luxuriantly)

  1. In a luxuriant manner; with luxuriance.
    • 1851, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, The Moorland Cottage‎[1]:
      […] 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.
    • 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 187:
      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.
    • 1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 80:
      It 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.

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