What's the difference between refulgent and resplendent?

Refulgent


Definition:

  • (a.) Casting a bright light; radiant; brilliant; resplendent; shining; splendid; as, refulgent beams.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Holland are favourites, primarily because of their inventive forward players – with Wesley Scheijder in refulgent form and brittle Arjen Robben and Robin Van Persie set to make a record two consecutive starts, the Uruguayan defence will surely be stretched ….
  • (2) And to re-read any of Lewis's accounts of travel - to Indo- china and India, to Burma, Latin America, Spain, Sicily or Indonesia - is to fall instantly under the spell of his subtle, refulgent musical magic.
  • (3) "If you've read my fantasy series, The Underland Chronicles, you will have a clue as to why I chose this photo," she writes, offering no help to any visiting Hunger Games fan who had imagined her refulgent in a flaming robe.
  • (4) It’s a once-glorious, now-dowdy thoroughfare with a few refulgent granite buildings surrounded by an excess of eyesores.

Resplendent


Definition:

  • (a.) Shining with brilliant luster; very bright.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thomas brings Khalil and his forever-changed friend Starr back to life in resplendent color.
  • (2) There was the Cenotaph resplendent, spotlessly clean.
  • (3) With the headline "A very British revolution", the Times writes: In the May sunshine, on resplendent Downing Street lawns, an improbable lightness accompanied the serious business of turning Britain around.
  • (4) Now she only needed to wait, resplendent atop her chariot.
  • (5) On a clear day, the Firth of Clyde looks resplendent from here, basking “gaily in the sunny beam”.
  • (6) What appeared was Humphrey Carpenter, resplendent in an outrageous frock and an even more outrageous wig and make-up.
  • (7) In her wake will travel a flotilla of 1,000 boats decorated in streamers and flags, their crews resplendent in their finest rigs.
  • (8) A year-round destination, Yosemite is resplendent but often crowded in the summer; winter transforms the park into a quiet snowy paradise.
  • (9) The wall is resplendent with cartoons, including an excellent caricature of Trumpers smoking a cigar, drawn when she received her Oldie of the Year award from the Oldie magazine in 2012.
  • (10) Still a popular tourist destination for its literary connection, the child-friendly Spoon made its own headlines by adding grey squirrel to a menu already resplendent with braised pork leg and organic Arctic char.
  • (11) The truth seems to be that Haffey put his afternoon's experience down solely to the commanding resplendence of Haynes and his artful lieutenant Jimmy Greaves, who scored a hat-trick.
  • (12) Milan are resplendent in their gold number while Atlético are wearing their red and white stripes.
  • (13) Success is at our door, but it is not yet won.” Fabius, speaking in his resplendent office in France’s foreign ministry, was in ebullient mood.
  • (14) And up on stage, resplendent in silver Stetsons and zebra-striped rodeo suits, Los Tigres sing about the spectacular demise of Mexican drug smuggler Manuel Atillano.
  • (15) For Lizzie Armitstead this has been a heady spring, resplendent in the world champion’s rainbow stripes and notching up a hit-rate of victories that is astonishing, taken as a proportion of races started.
  • (16) Photograph: Alamy Seoul is an ancient city resplendent with Unesco-listed buildings.
  • (17) This former residence of politician, polymath and billionaire hoarder the 17th Marquis of Cerralbo, has resplendent rooms jammed with ancient artefacts, priceless masters, oriental curios and an armoury worthy of a warlord.
  • (18) Unlike the aforementioned Rosie, of course, who on Tuesday, wearing only her pants, was resplendent the entire length of the paper's front page, appearing again on Page 3, showing a nipple, as a lovely surprise.
  • (19) At times Mandela, in a trademark batik silk shirt, and his wife, resplendent in yellow, exchanged words and held hands like any elderly couple in the theatre stalls.
  • (20) The first photograph that McCullin had printed in the Observer was a 1958 picture of a north London gang called "The Guv'nors" – a group of teddy boys resplendent in their exaggerated, smart clothes, rising through and out of a bomb-damaged building.

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