splendorousadj.
/ˈsplɛndərəs/ Full of splendour; resplendent, bright.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > splendour > [adjective]
orgulousa1450
splendidious?a1475
splendiferousa1500
splendent1517
transplendent1557
splendant1590
splendorous1604
splendidous1607
splendious1609
florid1642
splendid1815
splendescent1848
many-splendoured1859
nifty1865
ducky1897
the world > matter > light > intensity of light > [adjective] > brilliant or resplendent
flaming?a1400
livelyc1425
resplendent?1440
resplendant?1473
resplendishant?1473
fulgent?a1475
resplendishing1479
splendiferousa1500
vehement1528
preclarec1550
profulgent1561
prelucent1568
splendicant1592
full1599
resplending1600
splendorous1604
splendious1609
splendid1634
flammeous1646
vivid1665
brilliant1681
effulgent1737
fulgorous1772
spandy-bright1968
1604 M. Drayton Moyses iii. 70 Himselfe inuested in a splendorous flame.
1619 M. Drayton Poems (rev. ed.) 258 Your Beautie is the hot and splend'rous Sunne.
1627 M. Drayton Battaile Agincourt 35 In Warlike state the Royall Standard borne Before him, as in splendrous Armes he road.
1639 G. Daniel Ecclus. xxv. 31 Splendrous, and in a height Transcending all bright Iustice.
1796 P. L. Courtier Pleasures of Solitude (1802) 85 In Corydon's splendourous Ball.
1871 G. MacDonald Wks. Fancy & Imagination III. 215 A light that..spreads a finer joy, Than cloudless noon-tide splendorous o'er the world.
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