rare. [f. VERNAL a. + -ITY.]
† 1. The ‘spring-time’ of something. Obs.
1639. Wotton, in Reliq. (1672), 477. I was then surprized with an advertisement from Court, of the death of … my dear nephew, in the vernality (as I may term it) of his employments and fortunes.
2. (See quot.)
1896. Agric. Gaz., 18 May, 470/1. Vernality expresses that property of rich and shaded pasture land which makes them a lovely green, with tender and close clustering spring shoots.
