Crossword clues for effulgence
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Effulgence \Ef*ful"gence\, n. The state of being effulgent; extreme brilliancy; a flood of light; great luster or brightness; splendor.
The effulgence of his glory abides.
--Milton.
The bright and the balmy effulgence of morn.
--Beattie.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s (Milton), from Late Latin effulgentia (from Latin effulgentum; see effulgent).
Wiktionary
n. A state of being bright and radiant, splendor, brilliance.
WordNet
n. the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light [syn: radiance, radiancy, shine, refulgence, refulgency]
Usage examples of "effulgence".
Shah to invite you and the Prince and the Invigilator to go hunting with His Effulgence.
If in the deep midnight of heathenism the sage had been justified in seeking in the mysteries of Eleusis for a keener apprehension of the truths of primitive religion, how does this justify the Mason, in the midday effulgence of Christianity, in telling mankind he has a wonderful secret for advancing them in virtue and happiness--a secret unknown to the incarnate God, and to the Church with which he has promised the Paraclete should abide for ever?
Now, in that Japanese sea, the days in summer are as freshets of effulgences.
The coruscant effulgence of Bloodstone illumined the entire city and spilled over onto the murky slime of the swamp.
Pinnacles and terraces took the light of Canopus and flashed it back in a glory of quivering effulgence.
The perpetual sunset over the artificial ocean went from pink and gold to blue and gold while the azure effulgence turned the grains of emerald sand underfoot an exquisite blue-green, so that the beach seemed suddenly paved with a billion tiny aquamarines.
Dumarest looked beyond the face which hung suspended over the open casket, haloed with a soft effulgence which turned the gray mass of his roached hair into a crest of tarnished silver.
On this only-begotten Son, the Almighty Father had transfused his ample spirit, and impressed the effulgence of his glory.
My eyes, wholly unused to the effulgence of light, could not bear the sudden brightness.
By the saffron effulgence of the ring they descended five hundred and eighty-eight corkscrewed steps that plumbed the ground like a vertical drill.