3 uses
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Definition
glowing or shining
(also used metaphorically to describe beauty or intelligence)
(also used metaphorically to describe beauty or intelligence)
- It was a vast, luminous dream in which his whole life seemed to stretch out before him like a landscape on a summer evening after rain.p. 160.2
- The eyes grew larger and more luminous.p. 243.1
- But there had been a moment — he did not know how long, thirty seconds, perhaps — of luminous certainty, when each new suggestion of O'Brien's had filled up a patch of emptiness and become absolute truth, and when two and two could have been three as easily as five, if that were what was needed.p. 258.5
There are no more uses of "luminous" in 1984 by Orwell.
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