relume
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 6
Definition of relume
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(archaic, transitive)To rekindle; to relight (literally or figuratively).
“Aratus, who a while relum'd the Soul / Of fondly lingering Liberty in Greece […] .”
“Then I bethought me of the glorious doom / Of those who sternly struggle to relume / The lamp of Hope o’er man's bewildered lot; […]”
“For a time, I thought that, by watching a complying moment, fostering the still warm ashes, I might relume in her the flame of love.”
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verb
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(archaic, transitive)To rekindle; to relight (literally or figuratively).
“Aratus, who a while relum'd the Soul / Of fondly lingering Liberty in Greece […] .”
“Then I bethought me of the glorious doom / Of those who sternly struggle to relume / The lamp of Hope o’er man's bewildered lot; […]”
“For a time, I thought that, by watching a complying moment, fostering the still warm ashes, I might relume in her the flame of love.”
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(archaic, transitive)To make clear or bright again.
“[H]e opened his eyes again; the spreading film retired, and love relumed them—he gave a look—it was never forgotten.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From re- + (il)lume.
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