refulgent

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While the latter was growing moment by moment more refulgent, the former caught the wondrous dyes, till the water seemed everywhere like molten gold with ruddy and empurpled reflections where the sea gave a gentle heave.

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  1. adjective Shining radiantly; resplendent.

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  • While the latter was growing moment by moment more refulgent, the former caught the wondrous dyes, till the water seemed everywhere like molten gold with ruddy and empurpled reflections where the sea gave a gentle heave. —  A Terrible Coward
  • Then the reality of the divine religions shall become resplendent and refulgent, indicating that they were meant to be the cause of unity and love and that through them heavenly bestowals have ever been conferring light upon the human world 23 November 1912 Talk at Banquet Great Northern Hotel 118 West Fifty-seventh Street, New York Notes by Edna McKinney Throughout the world there are innumerable meetings and assemblages, more or less important according to their measure of contribution to human betterment, yet limited in their purpose and object to material questions and outcomes. —  The Promulgation of Universal Peace
  • Do ye not look upon the present conditions; in the not far distant future the world of women will become all-refulgent and all-glorious, For His Holiness Bahá’u’lláh Hath Willed It so! —  Paris Talks
  • The Mores, the Hemanses, the De Staels, and others among the immortal dead and the living, who compose that bright galaxy of female wit shining ever refulgent--have they added nothing to human life, and given no quick, upward impulse of the world? —  Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters Volume 3
  • He shone refulgent, being yet in the white or full-dress uniform of his calling In one hand he held the best gun of Jimmie Time; in the other--there seemed to be a well-gripped connection with the slack of a buckskin shirt--writhed the alleged real doughnuts of a possibly Peruvian character. —  Somewhere in Red Gap
 

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  1. Latin refulgēns, refulgent-, present participle of refulgēre, to flash back : re-, re- + fulgēre, to flash; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Old French refulgent, French réfulgent =Spanish Portuguese refulgente =Italian rifulgente, from Latin refulgen (t-)s, present participle of refulgere, flash back, shine brilliantly, from re-, back, + fulgere, flash, shine: see fulgent.
 

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