Literary notes about aureate (AI summary)
The term "aureate" is employed in literature to evoke the brilliance and opulence of golden imagery, whether describing a physical quality or a style of expression. Writers use it to paint scenes glowing with splendor—for instance, a sea or sky bathed in luminous, golden light ([1], [2], [3])—or to portray ornate, almost otherworldly atmospheres that transform ordinary realities into realms of magic and majesty ([4], [5], [6]). At the same time, "aureate" can function as a commentary on language itself, contrasting highly elaborate rhetoric with more straightforward styles ([7], [8]). Even in fighting scenes or depictions of celestial structures, the word enlivens descriptions by lending them a richly crafted, almost tangible glow—from shafts crowned with radiant light to a penumbra flashing with divine power ([9], [10]).
- On the aureate waves was no speck of life.
— from The Eternal Maiden by T. Everett (Thomas Everett) Harré - Evening fills the west with aureate woolly clouds,—the wool of the Fleece of Gold.
— from Two Years in the French West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn - And just across the area the sun was already beginning to wash all the roofs with its aureate light.
— from The Rich Little Poor Boy by Eleanor Gates - From the flaming crimson center to aureate, flashing penumbra it was instinct with and poured forth power—power vast and conscious.
— from The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt - In wide, complicated dance, they wove a huge, warpless tapestry with the weft of an ever vanishing aureate shine.
— from A Rough Shaking by George MacDonald - As though spellbound, Chichikov sat in an aureate world of ever-growing dreams and fantasies.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol - The contest between the plain style and the aureate style is really the old contest between realism and romance.
— from A Dominie Dismissed by Alexander Sutherland Neill - His prose is, on occasion, "aureate" or ornate, in a manner which has, perhaps, had its day; and again he deals in schoolboy slang.
— from History of English Literature from "Beowulf" to Swinburne by Andrew Lang - Shafts aureate-headed and manifold: Wherewith the hurt shall chirurgeon pay, ✿ And for slain the shrouds round their corpses roll’d.
— from A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, Now Entituled the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 04 (of 17) - The aureate light, streaming on, beat full upon the howitzer and on the living and unwounded of its men.
— from The Long Roll by Mary Johnston
