erubescence

/ ˌɛrʊˈbɛsəns /

noun

1. the process of growing red or a condition of redness

Derived Forms

• ˌeruˈbescent, adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of erubescence¹

C18: from Latin ērubescentia blushing, from rubēscere to grow red, from ruber red

Example Sentences

His hands clasped with a convulsive grasp the endeared destroyer of his life; and as the spirit flowed into the celiac channel of his wasted system, its consuming fire mantled his cheek with an unnatural erubescence, shot from his lustrous eyes, and imparted vigour to his inert frame.

From Project Gutenberg

I then ventured to ask the master to ask small and red Dougal what cutlery was; but from the sudden erubescence of his pallid, ill-fed cheek, and the alarming brightness of his eyes, I twigged at once that he didn’t himself know what it meant.

From Project Gutenberg

The dawn, upflaming swiftly from the sea, has no heralding erubescence, no awful blossoming—as in the North: its fairest hues are fawn- colors, dove-tints, and yellows,—pale yellows as of old dead gold, in horizon and flood.

From Project Gutenberg

He had been but a few minutes alone when an odd-looking, shabbily dressed individual came in, who rejoiced in a remarkably pale face, which looked as if it had been chalked, and a nose as red and fiery as a live coal; the idea of how many casks of wine and bottles of brandy must have been imbibed to bring it to such an intensity of erubescence would be enough to terrify the ordinary drinker.

From Project Gutenberg