"glitterant" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more glitterant [comparative], most glitterant [superlative]
Etymology: From glitter + -ant. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|glitter|ant}} glitter + -ant Head templates: {{en-adj}} glitterant (comparative more glitterant, superlative most glitterant)
  1. (rare, poetic, archaic) Synonym of glittery Tags: archaic, poetic, rare Synonyms: glittery [synonym, synonym-of] Related terms: glitterance
    Sense id: en-glitterant-en-adj-G5~EO14q Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ant

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          "text": "Therefore aboue the rest Ambition sat: / His Court with glitterant pearle was all enwall’d, / And round about the wall in chaires of State, / And most maiestique splendor, wear enstall’d / A hundred Kings, whose temples wear impal’d / In goulden diadems, set here, and thear / With diamounds, and gemmed euery whear, / And of their golden virges none disceptred wear.",
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          "text": "Lucent Nymphs / Gay circling round the glitterant Concaves ſhine.[…]Kings / In Purple ſumptuous cloath’d, with Shields of Gold, / Rode rapid on impetuous Courſers, proud / With gaudy Trappings, in th’ etherial Sky / Toſſing their Fronts, and ſhaking Glitterant Gems:[…]The Floor / Was glitterant Gold, but yielding to the Sight / Tranſparent, Cryſtal-like, where bloomy Flow’rs / Seem’d to expand their Beauties, ſoftest Shapes / Portrait’ring lovely.",
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