candescent

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Definition of candescent

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glowing with heat; white-hot, incandescent.

“By then the sky is lightening, sun candescent at the hill of her shoulder.”

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

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