Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With radiant or beaming brightness; with glittering splendor.
- By radiation; in the manner of rays; radiatingly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a radiant manner; with glittering splendor.
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- adverb In a manner that is
radiant ;glowingly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a radiant manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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Though the painting’s watery foreground was obscured by an ocean of people, Turner’s sky and buildings remain radiantly visible, proof that they easily match his much vaunted seas and waterscapes, of which Ruskin once said: The surface of quiet water with other painters becomes fixed.
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Though the painting’s watery foreground was obscured by an ocean of people, Turner’s sky and buildings remain radiantly visible, proof that they easily match his much vaunted seas and waterscapes, of which Ruskin once said: The surface of quiet water with other painters becomes fixed.
Review of JMW Turner Retrospective Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum in New York 2008
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Though the painting’s watery foreground was obscured by an ocean of people, Turner’s sky and buildings remain radiantly visible, proof that they easily match his much vaunted seas and waterscapes, of which Ruskin once said: The surface of quiet water with other painters becomes fixed.
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Why, say, like that she's what the poets call radiantly divine -- eh, what? "
The Miracle Man 1909
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You will quickly discover that it is physically impossible to remain blue or depressed while you are acting out the symptoms of being radiantly happy!
Make Yourself Unforgettable Dale Carnegie 2011
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He was better known as a studio photographer of radiantly beautiful women as well as society and showbusiness figures, politicians and royalty – work that made him rich enough to set up his studio in the palatial 33-room former home of the artist Sir John Everett Millais in Kensington.
National Portrait Gallery to put EO Hoppé back in the frame Maev Kennedy 2010
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You will quickly discover that it is physically impossible to remain blue or depressed while you are acting out the symptoms of being radiantly happy!
Make Yourself Unforgettable Dale Carnegie 2011
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All points shone radiantly, luminous in their nets of quantum energies.
Archive 2010-04-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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“Mmmm, your light amplification is stimulating my emissions!” she moaned radiantly.
-And Lurking Behind Quasar 3C295 . . . strannikov 2012
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She smiled radiantly, turned, nodded kindly to me and the teenager, and walked proudly with quick steps and pushed through the aluminum glass door.
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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