relucent

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Haec autem pie intelligentibus et ueraci corde tenentibus satis abundeque relucent.

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  1. adjective Reflecting light; shining.

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  • Haec autem pie intelligentibus et ueraci corde tenentibus satis abundeque relucent. —  The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
  • He carried her into the passage, and gave her the keeper's chair; after which, reminded of the programme so carefully laid out by him, he returned with Nilo to the court, where the illumination in the sky still dropped its relucent flush. —  The Prince of India — Volume 02
  • A thousand desires hotter than flame bound my eyes to the relucent eyes which only upon the griffon were standing fixed. —  Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11
  • Now he was resplendent in what the invitation cards call "Morning Dress" crowned by what must certainly have been the most relucent top-hat in London. —  The Yellow Streak
  • Two ponderous policemen were conducting between them a woman dressed as if for the stage, in a short, white, satiny skirt reaching to the knees, pink stockings, and a sort of sleeveless bodice bright with relucent, armour-like scales. —  Whirligigs
 

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  1. Latin relūcēns, relūcent-, present participle of relūcēre, to shine back : re-, re- + lūcēre, to shine; see leuk- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Middle English relusaunt, from Old French reluisant, French reluisant =Spanish reluciente =Portuguese reluzente =Italian rilucente, from Latin relucen (t-)s, present participle of relucere, shine back or out, from re-, back, + lucere, shine: see lucent.
 

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