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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Resplendent \Re*splen"dent\ (-dent), a. [L. resplendens, -entis,
p. pr of resplendere to shine brightly; pref. re- re- +
splendere to shine. See {Splendid}.]
Shining with brilliant luster; very bright. --
{Re*splen"dent*ly}, adv
With royal arras and resplendent gold. --Spenser.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
resplendent
adj 1: having great beauty and splendor; "a glorious spring
morning"; "a glorious sunset"; "splendid costumes"; "a
kind of splendiferous native simplicity" [syn: {glorious},
{splendid}, {splendiferous}]
2: richly and brilliantly colorful [syn: {flamboyant}, {unrestrained}]
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
RESPLENDENT, adj Like a simple American citizen beduking himself in
his lodge, or affirming his consequence in the Scheme of Things as an
elemental unit of a parade.
The Knights of Dominion were so resplendent in their velvet-
and-gold that their masters would hardly have known them
"Chronicles of the Classes"
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