effulgent
adjective
shining forth brilliantly; radiant.
effulgently
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a word derived from
effulgent.
Example Sentences
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The descriptions are detailed, and I think of Hunter S. Thompson as I write them, effulgently, contumaciously, a gringo in God’s villages.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2016
They pictured the Delloggs as bland pillars of light coming forward effulgently to greet them, and bathing them in the beams of their hospitality.
From Christopher and Columbus by Elizabeth
Half closing her eyes, she repeated words whose melody lay hid like crystals at the bottom of a stream before the dawn; hidden but to gleam effulgently at the birth of day.
From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft
But I paint myriads of heads, but paint no head without its nimbus of gold-coloured light. p. 193From My hand, from the brain of every man and woman it streams effulgently flowing for ever.
From The Vagabond in Literature by Arthur Rickett
A timorous thing ran the innocent hind, When the wolf was the hypocrite fang under hood, The snake a lithe lurker up sleeve, And the lion effulgently ramped.
From Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith
