fulgency

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noun

brightness; splendour; glitter; effulgence

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounfulgency (usually uncountable, plural fulgencies)

plural fulgencies

  1. obsoleteuncountableusuallybrightness; splendour; glitter; effulgence

    Besides, that from its fulgency it appears like flame.

    1787, Tobias George Smollett, The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, volume 63
    2 more examples

    Still but a shadow of his fulgency, His splendour shaded in that shrine of light;

    1825, Joseph Belcher, Poetical Sketches of Biblical Subjects

    Let the fulgency of the integrity of American constitutional interpretation remain undiminished and untarnished.

    1937, Law Notes, volume 41

Origin

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