a.; in Milton amarantin. [f. AMARANT(H + -INE; in mod.L. amarantinus.]
1. Of or pertaining to amarant(h, of everlasting flowers, fadeless.
1667. Milton, P. L., XI. 78. Thir blissful Bowrs Of Amarantin Shade.
1713. Swift, Caden. & Van., Wks. 1755, III. II. 8. She plucks in heav’n’s high bow’rs A sprig of amaranthine flow’rs.
1858. Longf., The Two Angels, viii. The angel with the anaranthine wreath, Pausing, descended.
2. Fadeless, immortal, undying.
1781. Cowper, Hope, 164. Hope Plucks amaranthine joys from bowers of bliss.
1847. H. Rogers, Ess., I. v. 240. To bloom for ever in amaranthine loveliness.
3. Amarant(h-colored.
1874. Hardy, Madding Crowd, II. i. 15. Promontories of coppery cloud which bounded a green and pellucid expanse in the western sky; amaranthine glosses came over them.
