Gleam vs Fulmination - What's the difference?
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a small or indistinct shaft or stream of light.
* Longfellow
a glimpse or hint; an indistinct sign of something.
brightness or shininess; splendor.
* Alexander Pope
To shine; to glitter; to glisten.
To be briefly but strongly apparent.
(obsolete, falconry) To disgorge filth, as a hawk.
The act of fulminating or exploding; detonation.
The act of thundering forth threats or censures, as with authority.
*1919 , H. L. Mencken, The American Language ,
*:It is curious, reading the fulminations of American purists of the last generation, to note how many of the Americanisms they denounced have not only got into perfectly good usage at home but even broken down all guards across the ocean.
That which is fulminated or thundered forth; vehement menace or censure.
Gleam is a related term of fulmination.
As nouns the difference between gleam and fulmination
is that gleam is a small or indistinct shaft or stream of light while fulmination is the act of fulminating or exploding; detonation.As a verb gleam
is to shine; to glitter; to glisten.gleam
English
Noun
(en noun)- A glimmer, and then a gleam of light.
- The rescue workers preserved a gleam of optimism that they might still survive.
- In the clear azure gleam the flocks are seen.