beaming

comparative more beaming · superlative most beaming

1. Smilingly happy; showing happy emotion.

   The honest Captain, with his Heart's Delight in the house, and Susan tending her, was a beaming and a happy man. As the days flew by, he grew more beaming and more happy, every day.

   1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC

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   The beaming smile of David Brooks, proudly wearing his yellow Euro 2020 jersey and a bucket hat, instantly raised the spirits of those on the pitch who spotted the 25-year-old's frantic waving.

   2022 November 29, Ian Mitchelmore, “Wales put out of World Cup misery by England as sobering tournament must signal changing of the guard”, in WalesOnline

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of beam

plural beamings

1. countableuncountableThe act of someone or something that beams.

   The auspicious beamings of the Reformation had indeed shed forth a partial light; but the gloomy sternness of Henry, and the arbitrary capriciousness of Elizabeth, were but ill calculated to give due energy to the new state of things […]

   1826, Humphry William Woolrych, The Life of the Right Honourable Sir Edward Coke, Knt

2. countableuncountableentertainmentThe use of beams (horizontal bars) to group notes and indicate metric value.