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Definition of Oriency
1. n. Brightness or strength of color.
Definition of Oriency
1. Noun. Brightness or strength of colour. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Oriency
1. a quality of the orient [n ORIENCIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oriency
Literary usage of Oriency
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1867)
"... softest blush and vicing with the oriency of the morning—the delicious plum,
veiled with silver}' bloom, ..."
2. The Cambridge Platonists: Being Selections from the Writings of Benjamin by Benjamin Whichcote, John Smith, Nathanael Culverwel (1901)
"Tis granted, that the picture ha's lost its gloss, and beauty, the oriency of
its colours, the elegancy of its lineaments, ..."
3. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Sir Joseph Paxton (1837)
"... others striped with an incarnadine as over a tissue of vegetable gold.
Colours of an oriency that mock the pencil of the roost exquisite artist; ..."
4. The Sunday at Home: A Family Magazine for Sabbath Reading by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1884)
"It is granted that the picture has lost its gloss and beauty, the oriency of its
colours, the elegancy of its lineaments, the comeliness of its proportion ..."
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