adj. Shining brilliantly; radiant: "tower searchlights ... as fulgent as half a billion candles" (Nicholas Proffitt). [Middle English, from Latin fulgēns, fulgent-, present participle of fulgēre, to flash, shine; see bhel-1 in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] fulgent·ly adv. |
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