intershine

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verb

To shine among or between.

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Meanings

verbintershine (third-person singular simple present intershines, present participle intershining, simple past and past participle intershone)

present singular third person intershines · participle present intershining · participle past intershone · past intershone

  1. rareTo shine among or between.

    Hearken ! hearken to my story; / Each one bears a separate glory, / And all splendors intershine, / Making all our race divine.

    1855, Thomas Lake Harris, An Epic of the Starry Heaven
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    As a man might say, an overshadowed and darke picture, enter-shining [translating entreluisant] with an infinit varietie of false lights, to exercise our conjectures.

    1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

    This beautiful palatial building, which is a typical Chinese Renaissance style, will certainly enhance the natural beauty of Taiwan and intershine with the art treasures of China (Plate 229).

    1964, Gin-djih Su, Chinese Architecture, Past and Contemporary

Origin

From inter- + shine.

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