Glimmering
['glɪm(ə)rɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glimmer
(n.) Faint, unsteady light; a glimmer.
(n.) A faint view or idea; a glimpse; an inkling.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Gleam (of faint, unsteady light), ray, beam.[2]. Glimpse, glance, transitory view, faint view.
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Examples
- I was like the Arabian who had been buried with the dead, and found a passage to life aided only by one glimmering, and seemingly ineffectual light. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Her soul was new, undefined and glimmering with the unseen. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- As he came out into the glimmering patch of light, we saw that he carried something white under his arm. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- They rushed into the kitchen, whither the truants had repaired, and at once obtained rather more than a glimmering of the real state of the case. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Mother, I have been an undutiful trouble to you, and I have my reward; but of late years I have had a kind of glimmering of a purpose in me too. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He pointed to a light, glimmering below us; and, at the same moment, I heard through the stillness of the evening the bubbling of a stream. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He stood before her, glimmering, so awfully real, that her heart almost stopped beating. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- To my gasping senses she made the glimmering gloom, the narrow limitsthe oppressive heat of the dormitory, intolerable. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- By degrees, a glimmering of the cause of this began to break on Bradley's sight. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Was the light that I had been looking for so long glimmering on me--far off, as yet--in the good woman's recollections of Anne's early life? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The stars came out, shedding their ineffectual glimmerings on the light-widowed earth. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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