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Noun

effulgence (countable and uncountable, plural effulgences)

  • A state of being bright and radiant, splendor, brilliance.
    • ✤ […] the clear effulgence of the stars by night […]1
    • ✤ He stood for a moment taking in the effulgence.2
    • ✤ Enough then, that I not only recognised my natural body from the mere aura and effulgence of certain of the powers that made up my spirit, […].3
    • ✤ These jewels, drinking in the sunshine by day, gave it forth during the hours of darkness in a radiance of pink light and a soft effulgence as of moonbeams.4

Etymology

From Latin ex- (“out of, from”) and fulgere (“to shine”). By surface analysis, ef- +‎ Latin fulg(ere) +‎ -ence.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ɪˈfʌl.d͡ʒəns/
  • Audio (Southern England): 🔊

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Footnotes

  1. 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter XII, in The Last Man. […], volume, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC: ↩

  2. 1875 January–December, Henry James, “Switzerland”, in Roderick Hudson (The Novels and Tales of Henry James; I), New York edition, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1907, →OCLC, page 457: ↩

  3. 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC: ↩

  4. 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 3: ↩

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