Definition of "rubescence" []

• A reddening. (noun)

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• "Ahead the mist deepened into a ruddier glow; through it a long, dark line began to appear — the mouth I thought of the caverned space through which we were going; it was just before us; over us — we stood bathed in a flood of rubescence!"
• "Ahead the mist deepened into a ruddier glow; through it a long, dark line began to appear -- the mouth I thought of the caverned space through which we were going; it was just before us; over us -- we stood bathed in a flood of rubescence!"
• "At the foot of this tree sat Tibbie Dyster; and from her red cloak the level sun-tide was thrown back in gorgeous glory; so that the eyeless woman, who only felt the warmth of the great orb, seemed, in her effulgence of luminous red, to be the light-fountain whence that torrent of rubescence burst."