auroral

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English aurora Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English auroral From aurora + -al.

1. Pertaining to the dawn; dawning, eastern, like a new beginning.

   “This first created light is properly the auroral light.”

   “This auroral openness and uplift gives to all creative ideal levels a bright and caroling quality, which is nowhere more marked than where the controlling emotion is religious.”

2. Rosy in colour.

   “Her cheeks suffused with an auroral blush,”

3. Pertaining to the aurora borealis or aurora australis.

   “The creature brought within him an amplitude of Northern knowledge. Glacial catastrophes, snow-storm episodes, glittering auroral effects, Polaris in the zenith, Franklin underfoot,—the category of his commonplaces was wonderful.”