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Of, relating to, or occurring in summer; a rare literary variant of estival.
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Use for a summer setting when a deliberately literary register fits.Give summer weather or stillness a rare, formally elevated tone.
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- aestival heat
- aestival night
- aestival stillness
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Aestival heat shimmered above the empty road long after the shops had closed.
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Aestival is a rare, elevated variant of estival; prefer summer in ordinary prose unless the literary register is deliberate.
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