Adjective: sheene
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | sheener |
| Superlative | sheenest |
Perifrastic
Sample Sentences
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If Saphyres, loe! her eies be Saphyres plaine; / If Rubies, loe! hir lips be Rubies sound; / If Pearles, hir teeth be pearles, both pure and round; / If Yvorie, her forehead yvory weene; / If Gold, her locks are finest gold on ground; / If Silver, her faire hands are silver sheene: / But that which fairest is but few behold, / Her mind, adornd with vertues manifold." [1887, Various, Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age:]
Adjectives inflected like sheene
scarce,
smoove,
sombre,
wholsome,
sheene,
bolshie,
baroque,
concrete,
seveare,
comf'table,
shrewde,
'umble,
grislie,
unsubtle,
ungentle,
indiscrete,
couthie,
chavvie,
lissome,
cutesie, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology