Word-Built World: fulgent

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fulgent

PRONUNCIATION:

(FUHL-juhnt) 

MEANING:

adjective: Shining brilliantly; radiant.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin fulgere (to shine). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhel- (to shine or burn), which is also the source of blaze, blank, blond, bleach, blanket, and flame. Earliest documented use: 1475.

USAGE:

“The storm has ended, clearing the sky for a fat, fulgent moon.”
Rob Costello; Whatever Happened to the Boy Who Fell into the Lake?; Fantasy & Science Fiction (Hoboken, New Jersey); Jul/Aug 2021.

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