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Webster 1913 Edition

Redolent

Red′o-lent

(-lent)
,
Adj.
[L.
redolens
,
-entis
, p. pr. of
redolere
to emit a scent, diffuse an odor; pref.
red-
,
re-
, re- +
olere
to emit a smell. See
Odor
.]
Diffusing odor or fragrance; spreading sweet scent; scented; odorous; smelling; – usually followed by of.
“Honey redolent of spring.”
Dryden.
–
Red′o-lent-ly
,
adv.
Gales . . .
redolent
of joy and youth.
Gray.

Webster 1828 Edition

Redolent

RED'OLENT

,
Adj.
[L. redolens, redoleo; red, re, and oleo, to smell.]
Having or diffusing a sweet scent.

Definition 2024

redolent

redolent

English

Adjective

redolent ‎(comparative more redolent, superlative most redolent)

  1. Fragrant or aromatic; having a sweet scent.
  2. Having the smell of the article in question.
    • 1861, Francis Colburn Adams, An Outcast, ch. 32:
      His breath is already redolent of whiskey.
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Episode 16:
      Stephen, that is when the accosting figure came to close quarters, though he was not in an over sober state himself recognised Corley's breath redolent of rotten cornjuice.
  3. (idiomatic) Suggestive or reminiscent.
    • 1919, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, A vision:
      But forth from sweat-shops, tenement and prison
      Wailed minor protests, redolent with pain.
    • 1926, H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu:
      He said that the geometry of the dream-place he saw was abnormal, non-Euclidean, and loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours.

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Verb

redolent

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of redoleō

Etymology

First attested in 1400. From Old French redolent, from Latin redolentem, present participle of redoleō ‎(“I emit a scent”), from re- + oleō ‎(“I smell”).

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