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beaming

adjective

  1. radiant/shining/bright
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Wiktionary

adj

  1. Smilingly happy; showing happy emotion.

    The honest Captain, with his Heart's Delight in the house, and Susan tending her, was a beaming and a happy man. As the days flew by, he grew more beaming and more happy, every day.

    The beaming smile of David Brooks, proudly wearing his yellow Euro 2020 jersey and a bucket hat, instantly raised the spirits of those on the pitch who spotted the 25-year-old's frantic waving.

noun

  1. The act of someone or something that beams.

    The auspicious beamings of the Reformation had indeed shed forth a partial light; but the gloomy sternness of Henry, and the arbitrary capriciousness of Elizabeth, were but ill calculated to give due energy to the new state of things […]

  2. The use of beams (horizontal bars) to group notes and indicate metric value.

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of beam