scintillescent
English
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[edit]scintillescent (comparative more scintillescent, superlative most scintillescent)
- scintillating feebly
- 1860, Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, Lucile:
- […] And poised herself loose in mid-heaven, with one pale, / Minute, scintillescent, and tremulous star / Swinging under her globe like a wizard-lit car […]
- 2015 September 15, Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Tor Books, page 327:
- They walked the forest path through geometries of sieved and scintillescent light. A bird called above, and Baru, remembering old habit, thinking of Taranoke, made a note in her census: one hawk.