Rubescent

Word RUBESCENT
Character 9
Hyphenation ru bes cent
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Rubescent"

What do we mean by rubescent?

Turning red; reddening. adjective

Growing or becoming red; tending to a red color; blushing.

Growing or becoming red; tending to redness. adjective

Turning red; reddening adjective

Turning red; reddening

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The word "rubescent" in example sentences

It writhed down her arm, and its five rubescent flower heads thrust out toward the priestess — vibrating, quivering, held in leash only by the light touch of the handmaiden at its very end. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The line of tail lights snaked over the hills and into the woods, the whole thing inching along like a rubescent worm. ❋ Blunt, Giles (2003)

From those gaping jaws a gout of rubescent flame swept across the captives. ❋ Jordan, Robert (1986)

The demon's rubescent eyes fixed malevolently on the mage. ❋ Jordan, Robert (1984)

She wasn't a prude but she was a girl who hadn't until now allowed any man the privilege of such an intimacy, which the ruby-shaded lamps intensified, casting a rubescent glow over the turned-back sheets and lace counterpane of the big bed. ❋ Winspear, Violet (1980)

Dimly through rubescent veils, the others in the hall could glimpse his white, frozen features, fixed in a grimace of torment. ❋ De Camp, L. Sprague (1968)

It writhed down her arm, and its five rubescent flower heads thrust out toward the priestess -- vibrating, quivering, held in leash only by the light touch of the handmaiden at its very end. ❋ Unknown (1919)

Then he could see the modest bookseller, somewhat clammy in his extremities and lost within his academic robe and hood, nervously fidgeting his mortar-board, haled forward by ushers, and tottering rubescent before the chancellor, provost, president (or whoever it might be) who hands out the diploma. ❋ Unknown (1918)

Guards, who was conspicuous in a uniform as rubescent as his patronymic. ❋ Unknown (1905)

And I once a rubescent socialist ... best parlor type ... ❋ Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (1902)

The disappearance of one eye; under a large red swelling, combined with a patulous and rubescent nose, detracted to some extent from the dignity of his appearance. ❋ Various (1898)

At this mild reproof Mister BAGSHOT became utterly rubescent, murmuring excuses which I did not catch; and I, perceiving that this object lesson of kindness to animals from an Oriental had strongly affected all the shooters, patted the hound on the forehead, consoling him with some chocolate I carried in my cartridge sack. ❋ F. Anstey (1895)

It is blood-red fact; it is warm-hearted invitation; it is leaping, bounding, flying good news; it is efflorescent with all light; it is rubescent with all glow; it is arborescent with all sweet shade. ❋ Unknown (1867)

His face looked so fierce and rubescent under his vast hat, that he put me in mind of a large coal, the lower half of which was in a state of combustion. ❋ Edward Howard (1820)

On the introduction of this primordium of entity into the uterus the irritation of the liquor amnii, which surrounds it, excites the absorbent mouths of the new vessels into action; they drink up a part of it, and a pleasurable sensation accompanies this new action; at the same time the chemical affinity of the oxygene acts through the vessels of the rubescent blood; and a previous want, or disagreeable sensation, is relieved by this process. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

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