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Glowing   /glˈoʊɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Glow  v. t.  To make hot; to flush. (Poetic) "Fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool."



Glow  v. i.  (past & past part. glowed; pres. part. glowing)  
1.
To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandescent. "Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees."
2.
To exhibit a strong, bright color; to be brilliant, as if with heat; to be bright or red with heat or animation, with blushes, etc. "Clad in a gown that glows with Tyrian rays." "And glow with shame of your proceedings."
3.
To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn. "Did not his temples glow In the same sultry winds and acrching heats?" "The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands."
4.
To feel the heat of passion; to be animated, as by intense love, zeal, anger, etc.; to rage, as passior; as, the heart glows with love, zeal, or patriotism. "With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows." "Burns with one love, with one resentment glows."



adjective
glowing  adj.  
1.
Softly bright or radiant.
Synonyms: aglow(predicate), lambent, luminous, lucent.
2.
Highly enthusiastic; as, glowing praise.
3.
Brilliantly colored and apparently giving off light.
Synonyms: fluorescent.
4.
Afire; as, glowing embers. (prenominal)
Synonyms: burning.






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"Glowing" Quotes from Famous Books



... with much anarchy and license, because they have been made by the least civilized portion of the nation against that which is most civilized. Hence proceeded the two-fold contrary tendencies which I have just pointed out. As long as the democratic revolution was glowing with heat, the men who were bent upon the destruction of old aristocratic powers hostile to that revolution, displayed a strong spirit of independence; but as the victory or the principle of equality became more complete, ...
— Democracy In America, Volume 2 (of 2) • Alexis de Tocqueville

... midst of the Golden Vale, a plain of wonderful richness and beauty, walled in by the red precipices of the Galtee Mountains, and the Knock-Mealdown Hills. From the rath of Badamar Find could watch the western mountains reddening and glowing in front of the dawn, as the sun-rays shot level over the burnished plain. Clocar is thirty miles westward over the Golden Vale, near where Croom now stands; and here were run the races; here Find gained the gift of the coal-black steed. It is ...
— Ireland, Historic and Picturesque • Charles Johnston

... pigsty for shelter, where he caused a pipe full to be taken of purpose."[44] It were easy to multiply quotations both in prose and verse, but it is to the latter, most especially, that we must look for the most glowing ascriptions—to ...
— The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 • Various

... obstinately opposed to it, and he has considerable backing. There is free talk about a revolution occurring if the break takes place, so determined are certain leaders not to be dominated by "foreign influence." Many Chinese can be bribed, but the Chinese in general cannot be fooled, and no glowing compliments about China's "masculine" attitude can deceive them as to the yoke they must wear should they decide to surrender themselves and place their nation at ...
— Peking Dust • Ellen N. La Motte

... two of the fringe of aristocracy lay here and there among them; and one racy-of-the-soil old son of Thames, having the manners proper to last century's yeoman. Mr. Pempton knew something of this quaint Squire of Hefferstone, Beaves Urmsing by name; a ruddy man, right heartily Saxon; a still glowing brand amid the ashes of the Heptarchy hearthstone; who had a song, The Marigolds, which he would troll out for you anywhere, on any occasion. To have so near to the metropolis one from the centre of the venerable rotundity of the country, ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith


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