fulgently

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English

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Etymology

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From fulgent +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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fulgently (comparative more fulgently, superlative most fulgently)

  1. (dated) In a fulgent manner; dazzlingly; glitteringly
    • 1878, James Thomson, A Note on Shelley:
      For genuine students the time to simply praise is past, the time to fitly appraise not yet come; for the morning he so fulgently heralded is still far from its noon, and the most prescient are still all-unsure what shall be the character of the evolution and completion of its day.
    • 1926, H. P. Lovecraft, The Moon-Bog:
      I was silent when the sun set fulgently over the far hills, and Kilderry blazed all red and gold in a flame that seemed a portent.

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