Lambent
['læmb(ə)nt]
Definition
(a.) Playing on the surface; touching lightly; gliding over.
(a.) Twinkling or gleaming; fickering.
Inputed by Gracie
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Playing about (like the tongue in licking), touching lightly, gliding over.
Edited by Denny
Definition
adj. moving about as if touching lightly: gliding over: flickering.—n. Lam′bency the quality of being lambent: that which is lambent.
Typist: Winfred
Examples
- She was so quick, and so lambent, like discernible fire, and so vindictive, and so rich in her dangerous flamy sensitiveness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They threw off their clothes, and he gathered her to him, and found her, found the pure lambent reality of her forever invisible flesh. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There was something in his presence, Ursula thought, lambent and alive. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- A lambent intelligence played secondarily above his pure Egyptian concentration in darkness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She did not take any notice of the wavering, indistinct, lambent Birkin, who stood at his side. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Typist: Winfred