scintillant
Americanadjective
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Origin of scintillant
First recorded in 1600–10, scintillant is from the Latin word scintillant- (stem of scintillāns, present participle of scintillāre to send out sparks; flash). See scintilla, -ant
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To the premi�re of the film, Street Angel, were invited Rome's most scintillant critics, most potent cinema tycoons.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some of the organs are scintillant and percussive, some hoarse with archaic, buzzing tone; some are housed in churches where the echo lasts so long that the sound takes on a luminous vagueness.
From Time Magazine Archive
To cinemaddicts he was a slickly turned-out young man of the world whose scintillant wisecracks regularly wowed Joan Crawford.
From Time Magazine Archive
Finally the Ministry of Corporations goes to scintillant polemist and war veteran Giuseppe Bottai.
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The twin yellow streams, scintillant, intersected, soaking me.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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