Sunday Word: Candent
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candent [kan-duhnt]
adjective:
glowing from or as if from great heat
Examples:
American education has been an important topic of debate for the past few decades. However, lately it has been a candent subject in several media outlets and schools due to the increasing number of internationals who choose American colleges to pursue higher education. (Micaela Carou-Baldner, Education: Survival of the Fittest, The Current, January 2017)
Now the sky is totally dark and the colors are at their most candent and the crowd is at its most fully invested. (Adam Davies, James Turrell’s 'Skyspace' Opens at Ringling Museum, Sarasota Magazine, December 2013)
The moving floor was patterned in day and night. The low ceiling was fused where the day poured through, became a candent vapour, volatilised. (H M Tomlinson, The Sea and the Jungle)
One sun came rolling out from its fellows, an immense orb of candent sapphire. Beside it appeared a world, fit child of that luminary in size. (Abraham Merritt, The Face in the Abyss)
Was Jove that secret long, and, hearing it,
Indignant, slew him with his candent bolt. (Homer, The Odyssey)
Origin:
1570–80; Latin candent- (stem of candēns, present participle of candēre to be shining white), equivalent to cand- bright (Dictionary.com)
The earliest known use of the adjective candent is in the late 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for candent is from 1585, in the writing of John Dee, mathematician, astrologer, and antiquary. Candent is a borrowing from Latin. (Oxford English Dictionary)