Definition of Glimmerings

1. Noun. (plural of glimmering) ¹

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Definition of Glimmerings

1. glimmering [n] - See also: glimmering

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glimmerings

gliffs
glift
glifts
glike
glikes
glim
glime
glimed
glimepiride
glimes
gliming
glimmer
glimmered
glimmering
glimmeringly
glimmerings
glimmers
glimmery
glimms
glimpse
glimpsed
glimpser
glimpsers
glimpses
glimpsing
glims
glint
glint in the milkman's eye
glinted
glintier

Literary usage of Glimmerings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle (1883)
"He is wonderfully patient of us all, and 'not without glimmerings of intelligence'! My paper and everybody's is done ; so you must put up ..."

2. The Dial by Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley (1841)
"Glimmerings. WHAT is there in the full moon, that it should disturb the soul with these thousand old dim recollections ? Why should her long shadows point ..."

3. The Works of Hannah More: With a Sketch of Her Life by Hannah More (1827)
"Such uncertain glimmerings of euch a futurity could afford neither warning nor encouragement, neither cheerful hope, nor salutary fear. ..."

4. The History of the Church of Christ: From the Days of the Apostles, Till the by Joseph Milner (1835)
"... if he pleases, may travel through still darker scenes ; yet I trust some glimmerings of the presence of Christ will appear. CENTURY VIII. CHAPTER I. . ..."

5. The Friends' Library: Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises, & Other by William Evans, Thomas Evans, Edith R. Hall (1843)
"... without a distinct discovery of the particular cause for which it came, began now to wear off, and some glimmerings of light began to break forth in me, ..."

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