amaranthine

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They were amaranthine and violaceous and subtly velvet.

From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 2019

It is for this crown of amaranthine glory, or blessed eternal salvation, that we are to watch and labor with fear and trembling.

From Food for the Lambs; or, Helps for Young Christians by Orr, Charles Ebert

It made him jealous to imagine them lost in this amaranthine profundity.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton

Ev'n now he claims the amaranthine wreath, With scenes that glow, with images that breathe!

From Poems by Rogers, Samuel

No Christian life is broken short off so, but rises in a symmetrical shaft, and its capital is garlanded with amaranthine flowers in heaven.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Maclaren, Alexander