Both Uses of
luminous
in
Middlemarch
- Having once mastered the true position and taken a firm footing there, the vast field of mythical constructions became intelligible, nay, luminous with the reflected light of correspondences.†
Chpt 1 *
- She nursed him, she read to him, she anticipated his wants, and was solicitous about his feelings; but there had entered into the husband's mind the certainty that she judged him, and that her wifely devotedness was like a penitential expiation of unbelieving thoughts—was accompanied with a power of comparison by which himself and his doings were seen too luminously as a part of things in general.†
Chpt 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(luminous) glowing or shining
(also used metaphorically to describe beauty or intelligence) -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, luminous can mean beautiful, inspiring, or beautifully clear and understandable.