candent
Americanadjective
adjective
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Origin of candent
1570–80; < Latin candent- (stem of candēns, present participle of candēre to be shining white), equivalent to cand- bright ( candid ) + -ent- -ent
Example Sentences
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The low ceiling was fused where the day poured through, became a candent vapour, volatilised.
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My candent bolts can in a moment reach And split their flying bark in the mid-sea.
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The roof-ribs swarth, the candent hearth, the ruddy lurid row Of smiths that stand, an ardent band, like men before the foe!
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The canoe going downstream appeared to dissolve in candent vapour.
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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.
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