aglare

[ uh-glair ]

adjective

1. glaring; glaring; blazing:

   The sky was aglare with spotlights.

Word History and Origins

Origin of aglare¹

First recorded in 1870–75; a- ¹ + glare ¹

Example Sentences

"Cruelty, Mr. Buckler!" he exclaimed, reining in his horse, with his eyes aglare, and his fleshy face of a sudden shining with animation.

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At the same time back clumped the man, aglare with rage.

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A week after a great city was all aglare with flags, and ablare with trumpets.

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The little "church-house," with all its windows whitely aglare in the moonlight, reflected the pervasive sheen, and silent, spectral, remote, it seemed as if it might well harbor at times its ghastly neighbors from the quiet cemetery without, dimly ranging themselves once more in the shadowy ranks of its pews or grimly stalking down the drear and deserted aisles.

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How tame seemed the dull surroundings of even that pretty place at such an hour—a few saloons yet aglare, a light in an occasional window, all the rest ghostly, silent, and yet commonplace, too, after our splendid excursion to the stars.

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