What does scintillescent mean?
Scintillescent means scintillating feebly.
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/ˌsɪntɪˈlɛsənt/ · adjective
scintillating feebly.
[…] And poised herself loose in mid-heaven, with one pale, / Minute, scintillescent, and tremulous star / Swinging under her globe like a wizard-lit car […]
They walked the forest path through geometries of sieved and scintillescent light. A bird called above, and Baru, remembering old habit, thinking of Taranoke, made a note in her census: one hawk.
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Scintillescent means scintillating feebly.
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[…] And poised herself loose in mid-heaven, with one pale, / Minute, scintillescent, and tremulous star / Swinging under her globe like a wizard-lit car […]
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