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Candescent

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    glowing with heat; white-hot, incandescent.

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

Adjective
  1. 1
    glowing from great heat wordnet

Etymology

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

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