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affulgent

affulgent is the alternative form of effulgent.

Meaning of effulgent

Adjective

effulgent (comparative more effulgent, superlative most effulgent)

  1. (also, figuratively, literary) Radiant, resplendent, shining.
    • Thus all day long the full-diſtended clouds / Indulge their genial ſtores, and well-ſhower'd earth / Is deep enrich'd with vegetable life; / Till, in the weſtern ſky, the downward ſun / Looks out, effulgent, from amid the fluſh / Of broken clouds, gay-ſhifting to his beam.a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC, pages 9–10, lines 185–190

Forms of affulgent

comparativemore affulgent
superlativemost affulgent

Questions about affulgent

What is affulgent the alternative form of?
Affulgent is the alternative form of effulgent.

Words near affulgent in the dictionary

  1. affrontée
  2. affs
  3. afft.
  4. affts.
  5. affulgence
  6. affulgent
  7. affuse
  8. affused
  9. affuses
  10. affusing
  11. affusion

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