scintillant
Americanadjective
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Origin of scintillant
First recorded in 1600–10, scintillant is from the Latin word scintillant- (stem of scintillāns, present participle of scintillāre to send out sparks; flash). See scintilla, -ant
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She made her coronation the first in a lifetime of scintillant spectacles, visual manifestations of her rule.
From Time Magazine Archive
To cinemaddicts he was a slickly turned-out young man of the world whose scintillant wisecracks regularly wowed Joan Crawford.
From Time Magazine Archive
To the premi�re of the film, Street Angel, were invited Rome's most scintillant critics, most potent cinema tycoons.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fundamentalist" speech* on evolution, so scintillant and persuasive that parts of it will still bear quoting: "What is the question now placed before society with a glib assurance which to me is most astonishing?
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The twin yellow streams, scintillant, intersected, soaking me.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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