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
Sunt in hac Insula montes elati in coelum, quorum vertices perpetua niue candent, radices sempiterno igne æstuant.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 by Hakluyt, Richard
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
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)
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