turgent
Britishadjective
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Etymology
Origin of turgent
C15: from Latin turgēre to swell
Example Sentences
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It is academic and often tumid and wordy, abounding in Latinisms like effusive, precipitant, irriguous, horrific, turgent, amusive.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
It is pleasant to meet with such still lines as, "Jam laeto turgent in palmite gemmae"; Now the buds swell on the joyful stem.
From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Thoreau, Henry David
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