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Webster 1913 Edition
Riant
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Riˊant′
,Adj.
[F.
riant
, p. pr. of rire
to laugh, L. ridere
.] Laughing; laughable; exciting gayety; gay; merry; delightful to the view, as a landscape.
In such cases the sublimity must be drawn from the other sources, with a strict caution, howewer, against anything light and
riant
. Burke.
Webster 1828 Edition
Riant
RI'ANT
,Adj.