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GLIMMERING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A slight suggestion or vague understanding
Example:
he had no inkling what was about to happen
Synonyms:
glimmer; glimmering; inkling; intimation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("glimmering" is a kind of...):
suggestion (an idea that is suggested)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb glimmer
Context examples:
But he looked again over his shoulder towards the sea-line glimmering afar off, and yet again.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
When the long winter nights come on and the wolves follow their meat into the lower valleys, he may be seen running at the head of the pack through the pale moonlight or glimmering borealis, leaping gigantic above his fellows, his great throat a-bellow as he sings a song of the younger world, which is the song of the pack.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Several horses and mares of quality in the neighbourhood came often to our house, upon the report spread of a wonderful Yahoo, that could speak like a Houyhnhnm, and seemed, in his words and actions, to discover some glimmerings of reason.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The reason lay in your answer to that most officious policeman, in which I seemed to discern some glimmering of good feeling upon your part—more, at any rate, than I am accustomed to associate with your profession.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was super-machinelike, and it helped to crush out the glimmering bit of soul that was all that was left him from former life.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
“You are afraid of him now. You are afraid of me. You cannot deny it. If I should catch you by the throat, thus,”—his hand was about my throat and my breath was shut off,—“and began to press the life out of you thus, and thus, your instinct of immortality will go glimmering, and your instinct of life, which is longing for life, will flutter up, and you will struggle to save yourself.”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
But the fainter glimmering of the stars, and the pale light in the sky where the day was coming, reassured me: and my eyes being very heavy, I lay down again and slept—though with a knowledge in my sleep that it was cold—until the warm beams of the sun, and the ringing of the getting-up bell at Salem House, awoke me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A fifth week passed, and a sixth, during which he lived and toiled as a machine, with just a spark of something more in him, just a glimmering bit of soul, that compelled him, at each week-end, to scorch off the hundred and forty miles.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Sleep came upon me as it came on many other outcasts, against whom house-doors were locked, and house-dogs barked, that night—and I dreamed of lying on my old school-bed, talking to the boys in my room; and found myself sitting upright, with Steerforth's name upon my lips, looking wildly at the stars that were glistening and glimmering above me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
And their function is to catch all the young fellows attending the university, to drive out of their minds any glimmering originality that may chance to be there, and to put upon them the stamp of the established.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
