brighting

Verb

bright (third-person singular simple present brights, present participle brighting, simple past and past participle brighted)

1. (UK, dialectal, transitive) Often followed by up: to cast light on (someone or something); to brighten, to illuminate.

   Synonyms:

   enlighten, light, alight, belight, beshine, fire, illume, illuminate, illumine, illustrate

2. (UK, dialectal, figuratively, transitive) Often followed by up: to cause (someone or something) to be bright (in various senses); to brighten; specifically, to make (someone or something) energetic, or happy and optimistic.
   • Toward Mid-day he [the Sun] brighteth the Air into a chearful Saphir, and guildeth the Borders of the very Clouds with a coſtly limbus.1686, J[ohn] Goad, “The Sun, the Great Light, Justly Admired. […]”, in Astro-meteorologica, or, Aphorisms and Large Significant Discourses of the Natures and Influences of the Cœlestial Bodies; […]...

   Synonyms:

   embrighten, enliven, delight, gladden, please, animate, arouse, awaken, beghast, leaven

3. (UK, also, dialectal, figuratively, intransitive) Often followed by up: to become bright (in various senses); to brighten.
   • Day brighteth at the smile o' her and yea, He hath aplanted full o' seed for harvesting by thy loving.1915, Keith Ringkamp, editor, The Patience Worth Record, volume I, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu.com, published 2008, →ISBN, page 238

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