rubescent

English

Etymology

Attested since at least 1730, from Latin rubescens, present participle of rubescere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹuːˈbɛsənt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛsənt

Adjective

rubescent (comparative more rubescent, superlative most rubescent)

1. turning red; reddening
   • 1919, Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop‎, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, →OCLC, page 171:

     Then he could see the modest bookseller, somewhat clammy in his extremities and lost within his academic robe and hood, nervously fidgeting his mortar-board, haled forward by ushers, and tottering rubescent before the chancellor, provost, president (or whoever it might be) who hands out the diploma.

Related terms

• rubescence

Anagrams

• subcenter, subcentre

French

Adjective

rubescent (feminine rubescente, masculine plural rubescents, feminine plural rubescentes)

1. rubescent

Further reading

• “rubescent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

rubēscent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of rubēscō