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Luculent

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Shining, brilliant. archaic
  2. 2
    Of language, speeches etc: lucid, brilliantly clear. obsolete

    "Cleombrotus Ambraciotes persuaded I know not how many hundreds of his auditors, by a luculent oration he made of the miseries of this, and happiness of that other life, to precipitate themselves […]."

Adjective
  1. 1
    (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable wordnet

Etymology

From Latin lūculentus, from lūx (“light”).

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