fulgent •
\FULL-jint\ • adjective : dazzlingly
bright : radiant
Examples: "Lilac
and wistaria and redbud, even the shabby heaven-trees, had never been finer,
fulgent, with a burning scent…." — William Faulkner, Sanctuary, 1931
"Both queens were
outfitted with lush and representative mantles, white kid gloves, splendid
jewelry and dazzling crowns to make a picture of fulgent finery." — Nell
Nolan, Times Picayune (New Orleans), February
26, 2012
Did you know? "The
weary Sun betook himself to rest; — / Then issued Vesper from the fulgent
west." That's how the appearance of the evening star in the glowing
western sky at sunset looked to 19th-century poet William Wordsworth. Fulgent
was a particularly apt choice to describe the radiant light of the sky at
sunset. The word derives from the Latin verb fulgēre, meaning "to shine,"
a root which is itself akin to the Latin flagrare, meaning "to burn."
English speakers have been using fulgent to depict resplendence since at least the 15th century.
January,
WON, WON Radio, Word A Day, Writers Online Network, Zachary Anderson Phillips, www.writersonlinenetwork.org, Wt Prater,
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