upglance
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "See him bend over the woman, and the upglance of her eyes as she speaks."
- ""Well, we'll have a good start at all events," said Merle, with a merry little upglance."
- "Nobody had as yet told Emily how very winsome that shy, sudden, upglance of hers was."
- ""Give it me!" she insisted; this with an impatient little stamp of the foot and an upglance of the compelling eyes that would have constrained me to do a far foolisher thing, had she asked it."
- "I stood beside her couch, with her thin fingers clasped round my hand ever so long, looking down at the earnest eyes upglancing from the pillow."
- "Or the rapturous light that upglances From the eyes of a myriad Loves."
Etymology
From up- + glance.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: up