scintillant
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- scintillantly adverb
- unscintillant adjective
Etymology
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
Example Sentences
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She made her coronation the first in a lifetime of scintillant spectacles, visual manifestations of her rule.
From Time Magazine Archive
Webern's scintillant, fractured Variations for Orchestra, was so full of bewitching sonorities that listeners were just becoming adjusted to it when it ended.
From Time Magazine Archive
For a generation the scintillant acumen of Lord Birkenhead has won him the name of lynx at the bar and lion among the ladies.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had been in love with the scintillant young Count Eulenberg.
From Time Magazine Archive
The twin yellow streams, scintillant, intersected, soaking me.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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