fulgurate
Americanverb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of fulgurate
1670–80; < Latin fulgurātus, past participle of fulgurāre to flash, glitter, lighten, derivative of fulgur flash of lightning
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Dead from the cancer, and sometimes you still felt a fulgurating sadness over it, even though he really was a super asshole at the end.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 16, 2012
The fulgurating Revelation set all his unknowing aspirations in a blaze and fanned the flame of the latent forces stored in his soul during fifteen years of contemplation.
From The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah by Etienne Dinet
It is terrified, like Delphos at the fulgurating realities of the vision; it makes tables turn as Dodona did tripods.
From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood
All the while, however, we pretend that the eternal is unrolling, that the one previous justice, grammar or truth is simply fulgurating, and not being made.
From Pragmatism by William James
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