resplend

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  1. To shine; be resplendent. Lydgate. [Rare.] Lieutenant-General Webb, … who resplended in velvet and gold lace. Thackeray, Henry Esmond, ii. 15.

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  1. from Middle English resplendent, from Old French resplendir, also resplandre, French resplendir =Provencal resplandre, resplandir (cf. Spanish Portuguese resplandecer) =Italian risplendere, from Latin resplendere, shine brightly, glitter, from re-, again, back, + splendere, shine: see splendid.
 

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