Definitions
Brief or quick look at something.
Word origin
The verb is derived from earlier glimse (obsolete), from Middle English glimsen (“to dazzle; to glisten; to glance with the eyes”), possibly from Old English *glimsian, from Proto-West Germanic *glimmisōjan, from Proto-Germanic *glimō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley- (“to shine”). Doublet of glimmer.
Used in a sentence
“Those wild hills are surely the outpost of a frightful cosmic race—as I doubt all the less since reading that a new ninth planet has been glimpsed beyond Neptune, just as those influences had said it would be glimpsed.”
“I have only begun to glimpse the magnitude of the problem.”
“What memories? / The pure love thoughts and who may know / Thou glimpsest from the long ago?”
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