amaranthine

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1660s, coined by Milton, originally in sense "unfading", as amaranth + -ine, from Old Greek ἀμάραντος ("unfading"). Noun

amaranthine

1. A dark reddish-purple colour.

    

2. The amaranth flower.
   • 1857, Eleanor Duckworth, ‎Milly Wentworth, Poems and Sketches (page 65)

     Ah! when the eternal morning dawns,
     And amaranthines shall displace the thorns […]

Adjective

amaranthine

1. Of a dark reddish purple colour.
2. Unfading, eternal, immortal, infinite.
   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 11,

     […] The angelick blast

     Filled all the regions: from their blisful bowers

     Of amarantine shade, fountain or spring,

     By the waters of life, where’er they sat

     In fellowships of joy, the sons of light

     Hasted, resorting to the summons high

   • 1893, Francis Thompson, The Hound of Heaven,

     Ah! is Thy love indeed

     A weed, albeit an amaranthine weed,

     Suffering no flowers except its own to mount?

   • 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode,

     “Fuchsia,” said the Doctor, “come along this evening and I’ll give you a tonic which you must make her take every day. By all that’s amaranthine you really must. […] ”

3. Relating to the mythical amaranth flower that never fades.
4. Relating to, or having the form of plants of the genus Amaranthus.

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