Violescent

a. [f. L. viol-a VIOLA¹ + -ESCENT. Cf. VIOLASCENT a.] Tending to a violet color; tinged with violet.

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1832. Edinb. Medical & Surgical Jrnl., XXXVIII. 217. The third or blue period [of Cholera] is distinguished by a remarkable blue or violescent colour of the face and extremities.

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1847. Webster.

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1893. Vizetelly, trans. Zola’s Dr. Pascal, i. Under the sky of a fiery, violescent blue. Ibid. (1896), trans. Zola’s Rome, 4. The yellow sunflashes … sharply outlined the violescent shadows.

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