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Definition of Effulgence

1. Noun. The quality of being bright and sending out rays of light.

Definition of Effulgence

1. n. The state of being effulgent; extreme brilliancy; a flood of light; great luster or brightness; splendor.

Definition of Effulgence

1. Noun. A state of being bright and radiant, splendor, brilliance. ¹

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Definition of Effulgence

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Effulgence

Literary usage of Effulgence

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Messiah by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Georg Heinrich C. Egestorff (1826)
"Where Thou in everlasting light dost dwell. 103d When the Triumphal host still higher soar'd Tow'rd the effulgence - beaming circumference Of ..."

2. Biblical Dogmatics: An Exposition of the Principal Doctrines of the Holy by Milton Spenser Terry (1907)
"effulgence of Glory and Image of Substance. Deserving special attention are the words of Heb. i, 3: "Being the effulgence of his glory and the very image of ..."

3. Appletons' Journal (1877)
"... as though unwilling to leave the delicious dreaminess of the earth ; a pale vapor tempers the effulgence of the water, and makes mysterious phantoms of ..."

4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1861)
"There can be no doubt that the superior effulgence of the bands obtained with this tube is due to the character of its electrodes; the bands are the ..."

5. Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1861)
"... the tube becoming instantly wards filled with the most brilliant strata. There can be no doubt that the superior effulgence of the bands ..."

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