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rutilant

[ root-l-uhnt ]

adjective

  1. glowing or glittering with ruddy or golden light.


rutilant

/ ˈ°ù³Ü˳Ùɪ±ôÉ™²Ô³Ù /

adjective

  1. rare.
    of a reddish colour or glow
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of rutilant1

1490–1500; < Latin rutilant- (stem of °ù³Ü³Ù¾±±ôÄå²Ô²õ, present participle of °ù³Ü³Ù¾±±ôÄå°ù±ð to glow red), equivalent to rutil ( us ) red, reddish + -ant- -ant
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of rutilant1

C15: from Latin °ù³Ü³Ù¾±±ôÄå²Ô²õ having a red glow, from °ù³Ü³Ù¾±±ôÄå°ù±ð , from rutilus ruddy, red
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Rutilant, rÅÅ′ti-lant, adj. shining: glittering.—v.i.

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She was twinkling at Michael, but he would not catch her eye, and he looked steadily over the brim of her hat toward the raffish and rutilant assemblage beyond.

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Standing against the wall and blinking at the rutilant glare of the room, Goliath the dwarf waited nervously.

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Come, ethel muse, with fluxion tip my pen, For rutilant dignotion would I earn; As rhetor wise depeint me unto men: A thing or two I ghess they'll have to learn Ere they percipience can claim of what I'm up To, in macrology so very sharp as this; Off food oxygian hid them come and sup, Until, from very weariness, they all dehisce.

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But to say no more of these superstitious fopperies, which are many other about this tree, we still dress up both our churches and houses, on Christmas and other festival days, with this cheerful green and rutilant berries.

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