aery
1 Americanadjective
noun
adjective
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a variant spelling of airy
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lofty, insubstantial, or visionary
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of aery
1580–90; < Latin āerius < Greek āérios, equivalent to āer- aer- + -ios adj. suffix
Example Sentences
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And I will purge thy mortal grossness so,That thou shalt like an aery spirit go.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 21, 2015
Once, during the Spanish civil war, an anticlerical mob tried to destroy the building, but for all its look of aery fantasy, they could not budge a stone or dislodge a single ornament.
From Time Magazine Archive
But across from my aery were no lights and no people, for that house was shuttered tight from attic to cellar, its dark front as expressionless as a blind face.
From Helmet of Navarre by Runkle, Bertha
Kenkenes from his aery watched her, noting with a softening countenance the almost maternal love that beautified her face.
From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Miller, Elizabeth
Oh! had I wings, and like a storm-swift dove Poised on some aery cloud might there descry The conflict from above, Scouring the region with mine eye!
From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles
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