Aglow
[ə'gləʊ] or [ə'ɡlo]
Definition
(adj.) softly bright or radiant; 'a house aglow with lights'; 'glowing embers'; 'lambent tongues of flame'; 'the lucent moon'; 'a sky luminous with stars' .
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Definition
(adv. & a.) In a glow; glowing; as, cheeks aglow; the landscape all aglow.
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Definition
adj. and adv. very warm: red-hot.
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Examples
- But she was all aglow with her reception, carried away by this little flattering ceremonial on her behalf. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- All Stilbro' Moor, alight and aglow with bonfires, would not have stopped them, nor would Calder or Aire thundering in flood. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The news of Sherman's success reached the North instantaneously, and set the country all aglow. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We loitered about gazing aloft at the monster windows all aglow with brilliantly colored scenes in the lives of the Saviour and his followers. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The young man heard her with veins aglow; but in his confusion of mind he hardly knew whether her news brought joy or pain. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
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