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Candent

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Glowing as a result of its high temperature; incandescent, glowing with heat. archaic

    "beneath them also flowered, like some immense coloured crystal, a semicircle of lake water, candent and faithful as a magic lantern to the startled images of fish scattering and reforming with movements of surprise, curiosity, perhaps even pleasure."

Adjective
  1. 1
    emitting light as a result of being heated wordnet

Etymology

From Latin candentem, from candere.

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