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English
Etymology
Attested since at least 1730, from Latin rubescens, present participle of rubescere.
Pronunciation
Adjective
rubescent (comparative more rubescent, superlative most rubescent)
- turning red; reddening
1919, Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, →OCLC, page 171:Then he could see the modest bookseller, somewhat clammy in his extremities and lost within his academic robe and hood, nervously fidgeting his mortar-board, haled forward by ushers, and tottering rubescent before the chancellor, provost, president (or whoever it might be) who hands out the diploma.
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French
Adjective
rubescent (feminine rubescente, masculine plural rubescents, feminine plural rubescentes)
- rubescent
Further reading
Latin
Verb
rubēscent
- third-person plural future active indicative of rubēscō