relucent

[ ri-loo-suhnt ]

adjective

1. shining; bright.

relucent

/ rɪˈluːsənt /

adjective

1. archaic.
   bright; shining

Word History and Origins

Origin of relucent¹

1500–10; < Latin relūcent- (stem of relūcēns ), present participle of relūcere. See re-, lucent

Word History and Origins

Origin of relucent¹

C16: from Latin relūcēre to shine out, from re- + lūcēre to shine, from lūx light

Example Sentences

By thee refin'd, In brighter mazes the relucent stream Plays o'er the mead.

From Project Gutenberg

The historian, Vinisauf, tells us that De Mailly was mounted on a white horse, which, joined with his relucent arms and white mantle, made him appear to the infidels to be St. George, and they exulted greatly in having slain the tutelar saint of the Christians.

From Project Gutenberg

Relucent, rē-lū′sent, adj. shining: bright.

From Project Gutenberg

In the second place, it being clear from these forementioned instances, that tyrants and usurpers have been disowned; and it being also as clear as light can make any thing, from the foregoing account of their government, and all the characters of truculency, treachery and tyranny, conspicuously relucent therein, that these two gentlemen, whose authority we are pressed to own, were tyrants and usurpers: it remains therefore to prove from all dictates of reason about government, that their pretended authority could not nor cannot be owned.

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The masses pour out of their dismal caverns, greed takes possession of men, and the myriad-headed monster fights and bleeds for this one thing, this red-burning, relucent gold.

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