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candescent en · ADJ

Etymology

From Latin candēscēns, present participle of candēscō (“to brighten, radiate, become red hot”).

Meanings

1. (rare) Glowing with heat; white-hot, incandescent.
   • By then the sky is lightening, sun candescent at the hill of her shoulder. 2023, C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey, Hutchinson Heinemann, page 118:
   • Tranquillity sudden, vast, candescent: form of forms. 1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 2: Nestor]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 26:

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