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rubescent

[ roo-bes-uhnt ]

adjective

  1. becoming red; blushing.


rubescent

/ ːˈɛəԳ /

adjective

  1. literary.
    reddening; blushing
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Derived Forms

  • ˈԳ, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ·cԳ noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of rubescent1

1725–35; < Latin ܲŧԳ- (stem of ܲŧŧԲ, present participle of ܲŧ to redden), equivalent to rub ( ŧ ) to be red (derivative of ruber red; ruby ) + -ŧ- inchoative suffix + -ent- -ent
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of rubescent1

C18: from Latin rubescere to grow red, from ruber red
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The words “He Was Special 2 Me” are emblazoned across the shirt in rubescent detail.

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Jasmine found it embarrassing at first to watch her uncle's tongue rubescent with all that vaunted good-health titillate itself in anticipation along the sparse hairs of his grey moustache, just as Spot titillated his back upon the leaves of shrubberies.

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Rubescent, rōō-bes′ent, adj. tending to a red colour.—n.

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Amid a theatre of opalescent clouds reefed in the east, the sun diffused its glory, and shaped rubescent coral columns, edging its facade with azure and gold.

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Rubescent, Rubicund, reddish or blushing.

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