ashimmer

a- +‎ shimmer

ashimmer (not comparable)

1. Shimmering; covered (with something shimmering).
   • 1875, Charles F. Deems, “Relations of the University to Religion” in Dedication and Inauguration of the Vanderbilt University, Nashville: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, p. 65,

     […] each great wing is like an unmeasured milky-way, ashimmer with the mystic splendor of all stars.

   • 1898, Henry Noel Brailsford, The Broom of the War-God, London: Heinemann, Chapter 11, p. 130,

     The sun had set the peak of Olympus all ashimmer.

   • 1941, Rachel Carson, Under the Sea-Wind, New York: Oxford University Press, 1952, Book 2, Chapter 12,

     The solitary vessel was the only moving thing on the sea that morning when the east turned gray and the black water came ashimmer with silver light.

   • 2001, Mark Doty, Still Life with Oysters and Lemon, Boston: Beacon Press, p. 52,

     resplendent, living oysters, ashimmer on their silvery shells, their pewter plate

• haremism