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The term "amaranthine" is often employed in literature to evoke a sense of eternal beauty and unfading glory, serving both as a literal and metaphorical marker of immortality. Writers use it to describe landscapes and natural settings imbued with a celestial quality—imagine enchanted bowers and blooming meadows that seem to defy the decay of time [1, 2]. In other contexts, the word adorns crowns and wreaths that symbolize noble virtues or heroic sacrifice, suggesting that such honor is as everlasting as the amaranthine bloom itself [3, 4, 5]. Additionally, the term frequently appears in discussions of abstract ideals, with virtue depicted as the sole amaranthine flower in a transient world, thus reinforcing its association with perennial beauty and moral constancy [6, 7].
  1. There, amid amaranthine bowers, Where God's own glory seemed to shine, She saw, on beds of golden flowers, Her dear departed ones recline.
    — from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various
  2. Sit down under this amaranthine bower and rest yourselves."
    — from Adventures in the Land of Canaan by R. L. (Robert Lee) Berry
  3. Ev'n now he claims the amaranthine wreath, With scenes that glow, with images that breathe!
    — from Poems by Samuel Rogers
  4. How must he smile on this dull world beneath, Fevered with swift renown— He, with the martyr's amaranthine wreath Twining the victor's crown!"
    — from Campfire and BattlefieldAn Illustrated History of the Campaigns and Conflicts of the Great Civil War by O. O. (Oliver Otis) Howard
  5. and not at mine, The angel with the amaranthine wreath, Pausing, descended, and with voice divine, Whispered a word that had a sound like death.
    — from The ArenaVolume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 by Various
  6. The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.—
    — from Pearls of Thought by Maturin Murray Ballou
  7. “The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue: the only treasure, truth.
    — from Satanstoe; Or, the Littlepage Manuscripts. A Tale of the Colony by James Fenimore Cooper

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