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Splendid or dazzling in appearance; brilliant.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin resplendēns, resplendent-, present participle of resplendēre, to shine brightly : re-, re- + splendēre, to shine.]
resplendence re·splen'dence or re·splen'den·cy n.
adjective
adj.
Like a simple American citizen beduking himself in his lodge, or affirming his consequence in the Scheme of Things as an elemental unit of a parade.
The Knights of Dominion were so resplendent in their velvet-
and-gold that their masters would hardly have known them.
"Chronicles of the Classes"
The bride and groom enjoyed the resplendent bouquets of flowers at their wedding.
Resplendent was released on 21 September 2006 in the UK; the date of US publication remains unknown. It is the fourth and final book in Stephen Baxter's Destiny's Children series.
This book is a collection of short stories relating to the previous three books, comprising new works and previously-published stories, including the novellas Reality Dust and Riding the Rock.
It contains the following stories:
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Books by Stephen
Baxter
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| Xeelee Sequence: Raft – Timelike Infinity – Flux – Ring – Vacuum Diagrams – Reality Dust – Riding the Rock |
| Xeelee story elements: Great Northern - Other technology - Qax - Other species |
| Destiny's Children: Coalescent – Exultant – Transcendent – Resplendent |
| Manifold Trilogy: Time – Space – Origin – Phase Space |
| The Mammoth Trilogy: Silverhair – Longtusk – Icebones – Behemoth |
| A Time Odyssey: Time's Eye – Sunstorm – Firstborn |
| The Web Series: Gulliverzone – Webcrash |
| Time's Tapestry: Emperor – Conqueror |
| NASA Trilogy: Voyage – Titan – Moonseed |
| Others: Anti-Ice – The Time Ships – The Light of Other Days – Evolution |
| Unrelated collections: Traces – The Hunters of Pangaea |
| Non-fiction: Deep Future – Omegatropic – Ages in Chaos |
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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - strålende
Nederlands (Dutch)
schitterend
Français (French)
adj. - resplendissant (sout)
Deutsch (German)
adj. - prächtig
Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - περίλαμπρος, λαμπρός, αστραφτερός, μεγαλοπρεπής
Italiano (Italian)
risplendente
Português (Portuguese)
adj. - resplandecente
Русский (Russian)
блистательный, ослепительный
Español (Spanish)
adj. - resplandeciente
Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - glänsande, lysande, skimrande
中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
辉煌的, 灿烂的
中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 輝煌的, 燦爛的
日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 輝く, きらびやかな, すばらしい, 華麗な
العربيه (Arabic)
(صفه) متألق لامع
עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - זוהר, מצוחצח, זורח
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