coruscating

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of coruscate

plural coruscatings

1. Synonym of coruscation.

   There were tremblings, flashings, coruscatings of sparks which were dying as they were born.

   1965, Marguerite Young, Miss MacIntosh, My Darling

   Synonyms: coruscation

comparative more coruscating · superlative most coruscating

1. Characterised by intellectual and rhetorical brilliance; blazing or glittering with rhetorical force.
2. Scathingly critical; blistering.
3. Flashing, sparkling, glittering; giving off flashes of light.

   1 more example

   They have the Bible, of course, and Dickens (an ancient set, NY, GW Dillingham, Publisher, MDCCCLXXXVII); and the Children's Encyclopedia (with some nice photographs of sunshine-haired Girl Scouts in shorts), and A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie; but they also have such coruscating trifles as A vagabond in Italy by Percy Elphinstone, author of Venice Revisited, Boston, 1868, and a comparatively recent (1946) Who's Who in the Limelight actors, producers, playwrights, and shots of static scenes.

   1955 September 15, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Paris: The Olympia Press […], →OCLC