candent
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of candent
1570–80; < Latin candent- (stem of candēns, present participle of candēre to be shining white), equivalent to cand- bright ( see candid) + -ent- -ent
Example Sentences
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Dressed in candent cot tons, he passes out sample boxes of Omo detergent, a fast-bubbling profit maker turned out by Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch combine that is the world's sixth biggest company.
From Time Magazine Archive
The days were candent and vaporous, the heat by breakfast-time being such as we know at home in an early afternoon of the dog-days.
From The Sea and the Jungle by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)
My candent bolts can in a moment reach And split their flying bark in the mid-sea.
From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William
In candent ire the solar splendour flames; The foles, languescent, pend from arid rames; His humid front the cive, anheling, wipes, And dreams of erring on ventiferous ripes.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn
Abysses closed about with night A tribute yield To her retardless sight; And Matter's gates disclose the candent ores Rock-held in furnaces of planet-cores.
From The Star-Treader and other poems by Smith, Clark Ashton
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