fulgent
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English fulgent, from Latin fulgēns.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
fulgent (comparative more fulgent, superlative most fulgent)
- Shining brilliantly; radiant.
- 1729, Isaac Newton, “Proposition XLI. Problem XXI. From Three Observations Given to Determine the Orbit of a Comet Moving in a Parabola.”, in Andrew Motte, transl., The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. […] , volume II, London: […] Benjamin Motte, […], →OCLC, book III (Of the System of the World), page 361:
- And univerſally, the greateſt and moſt fulgent tails always ariſe from Comets, immediately after their paſſing by the neighbourhood of the Sun.
- 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Two Lives”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 266:
- Shirley takes life easily: is not that fact written in her eye? In her good-tempered moments, is it not as full of lazy softness as in her brief fits of anger it is fulgent with quick-flashing fire?
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Translations[edit]
shining brilliantly — see also radiant
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fulgent
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fulgent