effulgence
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Noun
effulgence (countable and uncountable, plural effulgences)
- A state of being bright and radiant, splendor, brilliance.
- 1875, Henry James, Roderick Hudson, New York Edition 1909, hardcover, page 457
- He stood for a moment taking in the effulgence.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, chapter 12, in The Last Man:
- [...]-the clear effulgence of the stars by night-[...].
- 1875, Henry James, Roderick Hudson, New York Edition 1909, hardcover, page 457
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