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candent

American  
[kan-duhnt] / ˈkæn dənt /

adjective

  1. glowing with heat; being at a white heat.


candent British  
/ ˈkændənt /

adjective

  1. an archaic word for incandescent

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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

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

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 low ceiling was fused where the day poured through, became a candent vapour, volatilised.

From The Sea and the Jungle by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)

Thundering, he downward hurled his candent bolt155 To the horse-feet of Diomede; dire fumed The flaming sulphur, and both horses drove Under the axle, belly to the ground.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William

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