lambent

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The interspaces of all things seemed lambent, and therein fixed centrally was this ineffaceable and ineffable picture.

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  1. adjective Flickering lightly over or on a surface: lambent moonlight.
  2. adjective Effortlessly light or brilliant: lambent wit.
  3. adjective Having a gentle glow; luminous. See Synonyms at bright.

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  • Wherever the concretion of guilt is most adamantine, there he lets his fine slender jet of humor play like a lambent fire, until the dark mass crumbles, and the choragos of the tragedy begins his mournful yet hopeful chant among the ruins. —  A Study Of Hawthorne
  • It shows us a thoughtful and intelligent girl, with curls smoothed away from a very broad forehead; the eyes are steady and lambent, and the dress is not only careful but in the fashion of the time. —  In a Walled Garden
  • So the light of righteousness, as well as the lambent flame of love, burn together on that central fire of the universe. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
  • Verny--oh, happy, happy at last--too happy The sounds died away, and his head fell back; for a transient moment more the smile and the brightness played over his fair features like a lambent flame. —  Eric, or Little by Little
  • No matter how it came--whether in the forked flashes of the storm, or the lambent gleamings of the summer sky--he would sit and gaze at it in solemn wonder. —  The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables
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  1. Latin lambēns, lambent-, present participle of lambere, to lick.

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  1. from Latin lamben (t-) s, present participle of lambere, lick; cf. Greek λάπτειν, lap: see lap.
 

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