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Incalescence

Incalescence \In`ca*les"cence\, n. The state of being incalescent, or of growing warm.
--Sir T. Browne.

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incalescence

n. the property of being warming [syn: calefaction]

Usage examples of "incalescence".

The unwholesome warmth of an ocean of decay rotted the crisp cold to a corpse-like chill, like the buried incalescence of some deep and teaming crypt.

The blast of fiery heat struck at him, fore and aft, like the scorching incalescence of an opened furnace door, but he ignored it.