Lambent vs Labent - What's the difference?
lambent | labent |
or flickering gently over a surface.
* 1800 , , The Task'', Book VI: "The Winter Walk at Noon", ''Poems , J. Johnson, page
* 1977 , , Lord Foul’s Bane , page 77
Glowing or luminous, but lacking heat.
* 1839 , , Black and Armstrong, page
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Exhibiting lightness or brilliance of wit; clever or witty without unkindness.
As adjectives the difference between lambent and labent
is that lambent is or flickering gently over a surface while labent is sliding; gliding.lambent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)232,
- No foe to man / Lurks in the ?erpent now: the mother ?ees, / And ?miles to ?ee, her infant's playful hand / Stretch'd forth to dally with the cre?ted worm, / To ?troke his azure neck, or to receive / The lambent homage of his arrowy tongue.
- “As they walked together between the houses, Lena’s smooth arm brushed his. His skin felt lambent at the touch.”
- The lambent glow of fireflies delighted the children.
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- The Witch, with much ceremony, fills the basin. As FAUST is about to raise it to his lips, it emits a clear flame.
MEPHISTOPHELES. Quick! quickly down with it!—no breathing time allowed! […] And does a lambent flame prevent thee quaff?
- We appreciated her lambent comments.