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lambent
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Definition:1. gently brushing the surface2. glowing, but lacking heat, as a firefly
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MEPHISTOPHELES. Quick! quickly down with it!—no breathing time allowed! […] And does a lambent flame prevent thee quaff?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Faust: A Tragedy.
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Will Ladislaw was always to be a bachelor and live near her, always to be at her command, and have an understood though never fully expressed passion for her, which would be sending out lambent flames every now and then in interesting scenes.
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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