How do you pronounce scintillescent?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˌsɪntɪˈlɛsənt/.

scintillescent

/ˌsɪntɪˈlɛsənt/

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"[…] And poised herself loose in mid-heaven, with one pale, / Minute, scintillescent, and tremulous star / Swinging under her globe like a wizard-lit car […]"
"They walked the forest path through geometries of sieved and scintillescent light. A bird called above, and Baru, remembering old habit, thinking of Taranoke, made a note in her census: one hawk."

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