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American Heritage Dictionary (1 definition)
- Shining radiantly; resplendent.
–adjective
Century Dictionary (1 definition)
- Emitting or reflecting a bright light; shining; splendid.
GNU Webster's 1913 (1 definition)
- Casting a bright light; radiant; brilliant; resplendent; shining; splendid.
–adjective
WordNet (1 definition)
- Radiating or as if radiating light.
–preposition
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See ye not this Sun that shineth in refulgent splendour above the All-Glorious Horizon?
On the pier at which we drew up stood a train refulgent in stars and crescents.
Imagination "is finer than its poetry; and none but an orator could have painted Brutus rising" refulgent from the stroke "which slew
Rich in refulgent robes, and dropping balmy dews:
Once more they glitter in refulgent arms,
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/ (rĭ-fo͝olˈjənt, -fŭlˈ-)/
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Etymology
American Heritage Dictionary (1)
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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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