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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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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Coward, you have made the great refusal? you have won the gilded praise Of the wringers of his heart’s-blood from the peasant’s sunless days, Of the lord and the land-owner, of the rich man who has bound Labour on the wheel to break him, strew his rent limbs on the ground, With a vulture eye aglare on brothers, sisters that he had, Crying, “Troops and guns to shoot them, if the hunger drive them mad!”

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