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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
fulgent
 
SYLLABICATION:ful·gent
PRONUNCIATION:  fljnt, fl-
ADJECTIVE: Shining brilliantly; radiant: “tower searchlights . . . as fulgent as half a billion candles” (Nicholas Proffitt).
ETYMOLOGY:Middle English, from Latin fulgns, fulgent-, present participle of fulgre, to flash, shine. See bhel-1 in Appendix I.
OTHER FORMS:fulgent·ly —ADVERB
 
 
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