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Definition of Aglow
1. Adjective. Softly bright or radiant. "A sky luminous with stars"
Similar to: Bright
Derivative terms: Lambency, Luminosity, Luminousness
Definition of Aglow
1. adv. & a. In a glow; glowing; as, cheeks aglow; the landscape all aglow.
Definition of Aglow
1. Adjective. glowing; radiant ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aglow
1. glowing [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aglow
Literary usage of Aglow
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Everyday Ethics by Ella Lyman Cabot (1906)
"CHAPTER XVII THOUGHT aglow WITH FEELING " THERE'S such a thing as arguing and
there's such a thing as knowing outright. Didn't you ever know of a man's ..."
2. Of Much Love and Some Knowledge of Books by Henry Eduard Legler, Caxton Club (1912)
"He who would pass on the torch must keep the flame aglow. Only when one has fervor
and passion for what is finest and best in the literature of all time can ..."
3. In Friendship's Nameby Volney Streamer by Volney Streamer (1899)
"Yet day by day I know My life is sweeter for thy life's sweet grace ; And if we
meet but for a moment's space, Thy touch, thy word, sets all the world aglow ..."
4. Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry edited by Epes Sargent (1882)
"... all aglow, Auil the waves are laughing so ! For her wedding Hannah leaves her
window and her shoes. May is passing ; Mid the apple-boughs я pigeon coos. ..."
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