lucent

Definition

Emitting light; shining, luminous.

Etymology

From Latin lūcentem, the present participle of lūcēre (“to shine”).

Example Sentences

• "Sherif Nasir led us: his lucent goodness, which provoked answering devotion even from the depraved, made him the only leader (and a benediction) for forlorn hopes."
• "[…] her dilated eyes fixed with a horror-stricken fascination upon the pygmy burial-ground, in that broad, lucent expanse of the yellow moonlight which was still streaming through the illuminated gorge of the mountains into an otherwise dusky world."