verdancyn.
/ˈvəːdnsi/, U.S. /ˈvərd(ə)nsi/ 1. † b. transferred. Freshness of appearance. Obsolete. rare.
a. The quality, condition, or character of being verdant; greenness.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [noun]
greennessOE
green?c1225
greenheada1325
greenshipc1390
verdurec1400
viridityc1430
sinople1489
flourish1594
deep green1601
verdour1610
verdancy1631
verdue1641
zinnober green1879
vernality1896
virescence1904
verd1915
1631 T. May tr. J. Barclay Mirrour of Mindes i. 39 But the greatest delight is, that soe faire a verdancy is almost distinguished into diuerse colours.
1631 T. May tr. J. Barclay Mirrour of Mindes i. 100 England abounding in rich pastures..doth euery where delight the eyes of the beholders with a most beautifull verdancy.
1882 Good Words 23 608 Yellow freckles in some leaves may bestrew a surface of unfaded verdancy.
1888 Harper's Mag. July 220 We see..the same wonderful varieties of verdancy.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > youth > [noun] > youthful appearance
verdancy1678
1678 J. Norris Coll. Misc. (1699) 368 Had not the Youth and Verdancy of her Face contradicted the ripeness of her Discoursings, you would have thought her well in years.
2. figurative. Innocence, inexperience; rawness, simplicity.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [noun] > innocence or inexperience
viridity1825
to see any green in one's eye1842
verdancy1849
verdure1861
1849 W. S. Mayo Kaloolah xxxvii. 335 True, in the verdancy of youthful sentiment, many a one has shrunk from the profane association of ruby lips with the processes of mastication and deglutition.
1863 Baily's Monthly Mag. Jan. 358 Alas for my verdancy!
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