candent

comparative more candent · superlative most candent

1. archaicGlowing as a result of its high temperature; incandescent, glowing with heat.

   beneath them also flowered, like some immense coloured crystal, a semicircle of lake water, candent and faithful as a magic lantern to the startled images of fish scattering and reforming with movements of surprise, curiosity, perhaps even pleasure.

   1958, Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar