resplendently Meaning of "resplendently"

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Definition(s):

  • (adv) in an impressively beautiful manner

Usage(s):

  1. The World's Fair is so resplendently miscellaneous that it defies a blue ribbon for any one pavilion, exhibit or show.
  2. The visiting delegates may have been surpriseda resplendently uniformed Velasco had addressed them only a few days before at the conference's opening.
  3. After a service of nearly three hours, the solemn congregation burst into applause as the resplendently robed and mitered clergymen were declared to be bishops.

Quotes

  • "Resplendently poetic and loftily sorrowing," Updike calls the book, which tells the story of a man, born in San Francisco in 1871, who ages in reverse.
    on Feb 3, 2004 By: John Updike Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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