auroral
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auroral (comparative more auroral, superlative most auroral)
- Pertaining to the dawn; dawning, eastern, like a new beginning.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 227:
- This auroral openness and uplift gives to all creative ideal levels a bright and carolling quality, which is nowhere more marked than where the controlling emotion is religious.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 227:
- Rosy in colour, blushing, roseate.
- Pertaining to the aurora borealis.
[edit] References
- auroral in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
