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  • adjective superlative form of balmy: most balmy.

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Examples

  • • Participate in any extracurricular activity they wanted, so long as I was never required to drive farther than 10 minutes to get them there, or to sit on a field in a folding chair in anything but the balmiest weather for any longer than 60 minutes.

    In Defense of the Guilty, Ambivalent, Preoccupied Western Mom Ayelet Waldman 2011

  • He would spend four times that long in “luxurious vagrancy” in the islands, which would ever afterward linger in his memory as “the peacefullest, restfullest, sunniest, balmiest, dreamiest haven of refuge for a worn and weary spirit the surface of the earth can offer.”

    LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

  • Despite the increasing bite of the air, he looked completely comfortable in nothing but shirt and kilt, with no more than a slight reddening of the nose to show it was not the balmiest of spring evenings.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • He would spend four times that long in “luxurious vagrancy” in the islands, which would ever afterward linger in his memory as “the peacefullest, restfullest, sunniest, balmiest, dreamiest haven of refuge for a worn and weary spirit the surface of the earth can offer.”

    LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

  • Aside from a swooning housing market, soaring energy prices, a credit crisis and fresh concerns about jobs, this fall was one of the balmiest on record.

    Lookahead: Can It Get Worse? 2007

  • It came after the hottest autumn in a millennium and was followed by one of the balmiest Aprils on record.

    Medieval records shed light on climate history 2007

  • It came after the hottest autumn in a millennium and was followed by one of the balmiest Aprils on record.

    Archive 2007-09-01 2007

  • It came after the hottest autumn in a millennium and was followed by one of the balmiest Aprils on record.

    Archive 2007-09-01 GayandRight 2007

  • My wound with balmiest herbs, and soothed me to repose;

    The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

  • I find more joy in a sky full of rain now than I ever did on the balmiest summer day before I married.

    The Quilter's Legacy Jennifer Chiaverini 2003

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