adazzle
English
Etymology
a- + dazzle
Adjective
adazzle (comparative more adazzle, superlative most adazzle)
- Illuminated so as to dazzle.
- Synonym: dazzling
- 1832, John Wilson, Noctes Ambrosianæ No. LX, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 32, No. 190, February 1832, p. 281,
- […] let [a poet] speak of a man-of-war in a style that shows he knows a frigate from a three-decker, a cutter from a schooner […] , and Neptune shall be to him Apollo, the Nereids the Muses, and every line shall be a line of light—all a-dazzle with appropriate words, surcharged with the imagery of the great deep.
- 1927, T. E. Lawrence, Revolt in the Desert, London: Jonathan Cape, Chapter 5, p. 76,
- The dust rose up in thick clouds, thickened yet more by the sunlight held in them; for the dead air of the hollow was a-dazzle.
- 1945, Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, London: Chapman & Hall, Book 1, Chapter 4, p. 72,
- It was an æsthetic education to live within those walls, to wander from room to room, from the Soanesque library to the Chinese drawing-room, adazzle with gilt pagodas and nodding mandarins […]
- 2013, Brenda George, Song of the Shenandoah (page 147)
- By the time they entered Washington, it was dark and the lights of the city were all adazzle.