rare–1. [f. L. vapōr- vapor: see -ESCENCE.] The fact of becoming vaporous. Also Vaporescent a., vaporizing. (In quots. fig.)
1843. Ruskin, Mod. Paint., I. II. i. § 21. 393. It is by this kind of vaporescence, so to speak, by this flat misty unison of parts, that nature [etc.]. Ibid. (1872), Munera P., 47. Their vaporescent point, at which riches … ‘make to themselves wings.’
