Daily Word Quiz
EXULANT a) astonishing, remarkable b) overflowing, superabundant c) eminent, famous, renowned d) living in exile Answer below. Today's Featured Word: HORRESCENT ADJ. shuddering with fear; expressing or showing horror ...1865 rare ETYMOLOGY from Latin horrescentem, pres. pple. of horrescere to dread, to shudder at FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1865 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...I agree in the main with A.B.; but can, of course, make none but horrescent reference to his treatment of the smaller philosophers. From: A Budget of Paradoxes In The Athenaeum, Journal of Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, 1865 By: By Augustus De Morgan Daily Word Quiz Answer EXULANT d) living in exile ...1636 obs. rare
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