Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Growing red or reddish; specifically, blushing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Red, or reddish; blushing.
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- adjective
red orreddish ;blushing
Etymologies
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Examples
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Laura looked at Warrington with the archest sparkle in her eyes — Warrington fairly burst out into a boohoo of laughter: even the widow was obliged to laugh: and the Major erubescent confounded the impudence of the young folks, and said when he had his hair cut he would keep a lock of it for Miss Laura.
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They were clever enough to know that her keenest desire would be to keep the disgraceful past from the knowledge of her husband, rather than from a society seasoned these many years to erubescent pasts.
The Avalanche Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902
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It was only natural that he should, for he was born and had lived in Brussels all his life, but the accident of birth rather stimulated than calmed my erubescent admiration.
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The spark in the hanging lamp had almost expired, and the fire was reduced to a mere handful of coals, casting an erubescent glow over the pew and its occupants.
The Ghost of Guir House Charles Willing Beale 1888
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The spark in the hanging lamp had almost expired, and the fire was reduced to a mere handful of coals, casting an erubescent glow over the pew and its occupants.
The Ghost of Guir House Charles Willing Beale 1888
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The spark in the hanging lamp had almost expired, and the fire was reduced to a mere handful of coals, casting an erubescent glow over the pew and its occupants.
The Ghost of Guir House Charles Willing Beale 1888
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Warrington fairly burst out into a boohoo of laughter: even the widow was obliged to laugh: and the major erubescent confounded the impudence of the young folks, and said when he had his hair cut he would keep a lock of it for Miss Laura.
The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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Warrington fairly burst out into a boohoo of laughter: even the widow was obliged to laugh: and the Major erubescent confounded the impudence of the young folks, and said when he had his hair cut he would keep a lock of it for Miss Laura.
The History of Pendennis William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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a widely cometary fashion, circling now round one luminary and now submitting to the attraction of another, not without a serenely erubescent luster of his own, differed _toto coelo_ from the celestial state of authorship by whose courses we have now the felicity of being dazzled and directed.
On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859
qms commented on the word erubescent
Oh, pity the male adolescent,
Unwillingly often tumescent!
Though closely concealed
His plight is revealed
By cheeks that will glow erubescent.
July 2, 2015