shimmeringly

English

Etymology

shimmering +‎ -ly

Adverb

shimmeringly (comparative more shimmeringly, superlative most shimmeringly)

  1. In a shimmering manner; while shimmering; so as to shimmer.
    The day was shimmeringly hot.
    • 1857, Georgiana Marion Craik, Riverston, London: Smith, Elder, Volume 1, Chapter 2, p. 13,
      […] I caught the occasional sight of water, shimmeringly reflecting the frosty stars;
    • 1931, Jack Williamson, “The Lake of Light” in Astounding Stories, Volume 6, No. 1, April, 1931, p. 104,
      […] the tank was filled, to within a foot of the top, with shimmeringly brilliant white fluid […]
    • 1966, Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, New York: Random House, Part 2, p. 122,
      [The sun] made the window glass waver, shimmeringly twisted what hung beyond it […]
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