Crossword clues for resplendently
resplendently
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Resplendent \Re*splen"dent\ (-dent), a. [L. resplendens, -entis, p. pr. of resplendere to shine brightly; pref. re- re- + splendere to shine. See Splendid.] Shining with brilliant luster; very bright. -- Re*splen"dent*ly, adv.
With royal arras and resplendent gold.
--Spenser.
Wiktionary
adv. In a resplendent manner.
WordNet
adv. in an impressively beautiful manner; "the Princess was gorgeously dressed" [syn: gorgeously, splendidly, magnificently]
Usage examples of "resplendently".
Edward bearing his lance and buckler, he appeared a somber figure among the resplendently caparisoned knights and the gorgeously dressed women that were gathered in the great court awaiting the word to mount their horses which were being held in the north ballium by the grooms.
And before she had any time to prepare herself for it, there they stood on the embankment, with the Grand Canal opening resplendently before them in gleaming amorphous blues and greens and olives and silvers, and the tottering palace fronts of marble and inlay leaning over to look at their faces in it, and the mooring poles, top-heavy, striped, lantern-headed, bristling outside the doorways in the cobalt-shadowed water, and the sudden bunches of piles propped together like drunks holding one another up outside an English pub after closing time.
And they were resplendently dressed in velvet gowns encrusted with gems, doublets and robes that shone like peacock-feathers, gauzy cymars which draped their limbs like the attire of seduction.
Presided over by the towering, resplendently liveried black Willis, it was in the traditionally English country house style with Yankee and Island overtones - fresh pineapple along with grilled kidneys, hot oatmeal as well as kippers.