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 roof-ribs swarth, the candent hearth, the ruddy lurid row Of smiths that stand, an ardent band, like men before the foe!
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
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
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)
Me alone my fate Her miserable inmate made, when Jove Had riv’n asunder with his candent bolt My bark in the mid-sea.
From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William
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