erubescent

[er-oo-bes-uhnt]

adjective

1. becoming red or reddish; blushing.

Other Word Forms

• erubescence noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of erubescent¹

1730–40; < Latin ērūbēscent- (stem of ērūbēscēns ), present participle of ērūbēscere. See e- ¹, rubescent

Example Sentences

Erubescent, er-ōō-bes′ent, adj. growing red: blushing.—ns.

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As dusk approached, the visitors climbed into the big limousine en route to the train, and rolled through the richest plateau in the world, flooded with the erubescent splendor of a setting sun.

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The heaven of the literary world through which Mr. Harrison moved in a widely cometary fashion, circling now round one luminary and now submitting to the attraction of another, not without a serenely erubescent luster of his own, differed toto cœlo from the celestial state of authorship by whose courses we have now the felicity of being dazzled and directed.

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It was only natural that he should, for he was born in Brussels and had lived there all his life, but the accident of birth rather stimulated than calmed my erubescent admiration.

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It was only natural that he should, for he was born and had lived in Brussels all his life, but the accident of birth rather stimulated than calmed my erubescent admiration.

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