Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a resplendent manner; with brilliant luster; with great brightness.

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  • adverb In a resplendent manner.

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  • adverb in an impressively beautiful manner

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Examples

  • This Model resplendently demonstrates how profoundly pain has the capacity to negatively impact every aspect of life.

    Hollye Harrington Jacobs: Breast Cancer and Surgery: What a Pain! Hollye Harrington Jacobs 2011

  • With Fat City glowing on the step for the bronze medal for films about sport, the silver I happily award to the resplendently glorious all-singing all-dancing delight which Bollywood gave us in 2001 – Lagaan, directed by Ashutosh Gowariker, a knowing, smiling metaphor for the colonial British Raj to learn a lesson.

    Sport in celluloid: Why Raging Bull lacks punch of Chariots of Fire | Frank Keating 2011

  • Four men—all resplendently dressed, with feather sprays at their shoulders, copper breastplates, leather forearm cuffs, thick layers of shell necklaces, and clean aprons—stood just behind the central fire.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • This Model resplendently demonstrates how profoundly pain has the capacity to negatively impact every aspect of life.

    Hollye Harrington Jacobs: Breast Cancer and Surgery: What a Pain! Hollye Harrington Jacobs 2011

  • Four men—all resplendently dressed, with feather sprays at their shoulders, copper breastplates, leather forearm cuffs, thick layers of shell necklaces, and clean aprons—stood just behind the central fire.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • This Model resplendently demonstrates how profoundly pain has the capacity to negatively impact every aspect of life.

    Hollye Harrington Jacobs: Breast Cancer and Surgery: What a Pain! Hollye Harrington Jacobs 2011

  • Pundits everywhere, and there are great wandering hordes of them, have been out-flanked by Sky's founding duo over the past 20 years, from Alan Shearer parading his urgent banalities like a man compulsively shouting out his name or the day of the week on the bus, to half-pundits such as Dwight Yorke, who seems resplendently nailed into his chair, a gleaming, murmuring royal prisoner.

    Andy Gray and Richard Keys convicted on sound evidence | Barney Ronay 2011

  • Pundits everywhere, and there are great wandering hordes of them, have been out-flanked by Sky's founding duo over the past 20 years, from Alan Shearer parading his urgent banalities like a man compulsively shouting out his name or the day of the week on the bus, to half-pundits such as Dwight Yorke, who seems resplendently nailed into his chair, a gleaming, murmuring royal prisoner.

    Andy Gray and Richard Keys convicted on sound evidence | Barney Ronay 2011

  • This Model resplendently demonstrates how profoundly pain has the capacity to negatively impact every aspect of life.

    Hollye Harrington Jacobs: Breast Cancer and Surgery: What a Pain! Hollye Harrington Jacobs 2011

  • Nature here is as immeasurable as in the "well" poem, but "she" is still resplendently present and active.

    Poem of the week: What mystery pervades a well! by Emily Dickinson Carol Rumens 2010

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