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    Shining, brilliant, splendid.

 

  1448 Craft of Lovers v. in Stowe's Chaucer (1561) 341 O Courfin
figure, resplendent with glory. 1500-20 DUNBAR Poems lxxxvii. 25 Roys
red and quhit, resplendent of colour. 1513 BRADSHAW St. Werburge I. 659
This fayre prynces, resplendent in vertue. 1593 G. HARVEY Pierce's
Super. II. Wks. (Grosart) II. 266 The resplendentest mirrour of Feminine
valour. 1638 SIRT. HERBERT Trav. (ed. 2) 36 All now adding lustre to the
Moguls rich resplendent diadem. 1669 GALE Crt. Gent. I. I. i. 7 A more
resplendent and bright beam of Divine Revelation. 1709 MRS. MANLEY
Secret Mem. (1736) II. 271 The most resplendent Sight upon Earth. 1784 COWPER
Task v. 743 His are the mountains..And the resplendent rivers. 1820 HAZLITT
Lect. Dram. Lit. 145 If I have done them injustice, the resplendent
passages I have to quote will set everything to rights. 1883 J. GILMOUR
Mongols xviii. 211 A temple..resplendent from afar in colours and gold.