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riant |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Riant \Ri`ant"\, a. [F. riant, p. pr of rire to laugh, L. ridere.] Laughing; laughable; exciting gayety; gay; merry; delightful to the view, as a landscape. In such cases the sublimity must be drawn from the other sources, with a strict caution, howewer, against anything light and riant. --Burke. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: riant adj : showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness; "laughing children" [syn: {laughing(a)}]
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