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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of resplend.

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Examples

  • I did it beautiful: the house was a picture, it resplended of propriety.

    Vailima Letters 2005

  • Austin, etc. And in another place he writeth thus of him: S. Jerome, priest, learned in letters of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, and in holy writings approved unto his last age, of whom the nobleness of his fair eloquence hath resplended from the east unto the west, like unto the clearness of the sun.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900

  • Logier when he shone and resplended in all virtue he deserved to be bishop of Autun.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900

  • Lieutenant-General Webb, Harry's kind patron, of whom the Dowager took possession, and who resplended in velvet and gold lace; there was

    The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • The melismata sustain the Virgin’s metaphors; “garden of flowering plants”, “resplended rose”, “scented rose”, “Lady of Sorrows”, “how sweet are the breasts whose drops put out the terrible flames of hell”.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009

  • Lieutenant – General Webb, Harry’s kind patron, of whom the Dowager took possession, and who resplended in velvet and gold lace; there was Harry’s new acquaintance, the Right Honorable

    The History of Henry Esmond 1852

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