Meanings
comparative more scintillescent · superlative most scintillescent
- scintillating feebly
[…] And poised herself loose in mid-heaven, with one pale, / Minute, scintillescent, and tremulous star / Swinging under her globe like a wizard-lit car […]
1860, Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, Lucile1 more example
They walked the forest path through geometries of sieved and scintillescent light. A bird called above, and Baru, remembering old habit, thinking of Taranoke, made a note in her census: one hawk.
2015 September 15, Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Tor Books, page 327
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