Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Resplendent in the highest degree.

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  • adjective rare Resplendent in the highest degree.

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  • adjective resplendent in the highest degree

Etymologies

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trans- +‎ splendent

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Examples

  • Harvey would say that – he nabbed the rights to the best film, in the transplendent form of a silent movie called The Artist.

    Antisemitism, paedophilia, sex and talking beavers: Cannes film festival 2011 round-up§ 2011

  • Distance falls away, time is nothing and there this incredible sense of thick transplendent 'film' for want of a better word, that i visualise reaching through, and cuddling her, dancing with her amidst glitter and champagne cocktails.

    June 12th, 2006 mynxii 2006

  • I've always loved the use of things other than instruments for percussion — ever since a transplendent Incredible String Band concert I saw when I was a teenager where they kicked an old trunk for a bass drum sound.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Ann Althouse 2007

  • Then all of a sudden the transplendent sun sailed from its clouds and poured upon him its genial beams.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

  • Ivanovna she was a flaming glorious wonder, mystical, transplendent, revealed in every blade of grass, every flash of sun across the sky, every line of the road, the top of every hill.

    The Dark Forest Hugh Walpole 1912

  • Then all of a sudden the transplendent sun sailed from its clouds and poured upon him its genial beams.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 1906

  • The shadow fell heavy and cold upon their souls, the very air seemed to darken and grow chill around them The figure of the woman in their midst gathered up the sunshine, became ethereal, transplendent, a triumphant white and gold Spirit of Evil.

    Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia Mary Johnston 1903

  • Rather, it would have been strange to me if, irradiated, transplendent as she was, she had not considered her freedom and on the instant indulged it.

    Lore of Proserpine Maurice Hewlett 1892

  • The thought brought a little of panic upon it, and when he came upon another policeman lounging grandly in front of a transplendent theatre he caught at the immediate straw of

    The Four Million O. Henry 1886

  • As for her husband and his brother, they immediately set out for _Sh_íráz; for both of them, when visiting the Shrine of Imám Ḥusayn, had looked upon the beauty of the Primal Point, the Báb; both had been astonished at what they saw in that transplendent face, in those heavenly attributes and ways, and had agreed that One such as this must indeed be some very great being.

    Memorials of the Faithful 1844-1921 `Abdu'l-Bah�� 1882

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