单词 | rutilance |
释义 | rutilancen. literary. Rutilant quality; the quality of glowing, shining, gleaming, glittering, with either a reddish or golden light. ΚΠ 1908 E. H. Hickey Lois x. 58 With Lois Egerton the flame was unblunted: it was no glancing, no shooting to holy things of the sacred glory's rutilance. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 659 He..ignited it in the candleflame, applied it when ignited to the apex of the cone till the latter reached the stage of rutilance. 1981 J. McPhee Basin & Range 22 Redbeds on an epic scale are the signs of the Triassic, when the earth in its rutilance may have outdone Mars. 2004 R. Menon Mahabharata I. iii. xxiii. 635 The rutilance of Siva's astra engulfed Matali, the ship of the sky and Arjuna. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1908 |
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