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a⋅glow

  [uh-gloh]
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–adjective
glowing: a house aglow with lights; a face aglow with happiness.
Origin:
1810–20; a- 1 + glow
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a·glow   (ə-glō')   
adv.   & adj.
In a glow; glowing.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

aglow 
1817, from a- (1) + glow (q.v.). Fig. sense of "flushed with pleasurable excitement" is from 1834. Both senses first recorded in writings of Coleridge.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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