Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A growing rubescent or red; the state of becoming or being red; a blush.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being rubescent; a reddening; a flush.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
reddening .
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Examples
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Ahead the mist deepened into a ruddier glow; through it a long, dark line began to appear — the mouth I thought of the caverned space through which we were going; it was just before us; over us — we stood bathed in a flood of rubescence!
The Moon Pool 2004
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Ahead the mist deepened into a ruddier glow; through it a long, dark line began to appear -- the mouth I thought of the caverned space through which we were going; it was just before us; over us -- we stood bathed in a flood of rubescence!
The Moon Pool Abraham Merritt 1913
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At the foot of this tree sat Tibbie Dyster; and from her red cloak the level sun-tide was thrown back in gorgeous glory; so that the eyeless woman, who only felt the warmth of the great orb, seemed, in her effulgence of luminous red, to be the light-fountain whence that torrent of rubescence burst.
Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864
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