a. Obs. [ad. L. flōrent-em, pr. pple. of flōrēre to FLOURISH.] a. Flourishing. b. Blooming, flowery.

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1542.  Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 63 b. Sinopa … was … a florent citee, and of greate power.

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1719.  D’Urfey, Pills (1872), I. 340.

        The Prince is next, and by Eternal doom,
Fated for Greatness in the Years to come,
Whose florent Spring, now bears delightful Bloom.
    Ibid. (1721), Two Queens of Brentford, II., in New Opera’s, 28. Scandal has our florent Glory spoil’d.

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