lambent
adjective
literary us
/ˈlæm.bənt/ uk
/ˈlæm.bənt/Meaning of lambent in English
(Definition of lambent from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of lambent
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Maybe poetry remains atmospheric and diffuse, a lambent quality in the air.
From Slate Magazine
Could he withdraw, while, as he held her soft hand, that lambent fire played along his nerves?
From Project Gutenberg
Her large brown eyes were deeply fringed, and lambent with interior light.
From Project Gutenberg
Another has joined the band--a little shadowy form, with lambent eyes, and the smile of a seraph.
From Project Gutenberg
Rolling toward them, its foaming head crimsoned by the lambent glare of the volcano, was a giant wave.
From Project Gutenberg
His golden zodiac, no longer tarnished and dull, ran with sun flames; the wondrous rose was a racing, lambent miracle.
From Project Gutenberg
Abruptly the watching orbs shook under a hail of sparkling atoms streaming down from the glittering sky; raining upon the lambent lake.
From Project Gutenberg
Even on a dark night you can see it showing a distinct blue in the garden like a blue lambent flame.
From Project Gutenberg
Every now and then there would come a lambent flash of lightning.
From Project Gutenberg
The lambent air was full of the sounds peculiar to the boyhood which had seemed so far behind him and yet had returned.
From Project Gutenberg
His eyes were large, very dark and lambent with a light that seemed to come through them—like the phosphorescent gleam on the ocean at midnight.
From Project Gutenberg
This was not the night, nor mine the mood, to shut high heaven from my eyes, my thoughts, the lambent flame of my love?
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On his head he wore a paper cap, surmounted by a human figure, around which played lambent flames of fire, and ghastly demons flitted.
From Project Gutenberg
Instead of flushing, her face grew paler, and the large eyes were full of lambent light, which seemed to flash out from her soul.
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At the same instant, there came a dazzling flash of lambent lightning.
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