shiningness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

shining +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

shiningness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of shining; brightness.
    • J. Spence
      The epithets marmoreus, eburneus, and candidus, are all applied to beauty by the Roman poets, sometimes as to their shape, and sometimes as to the shiningness here spoken of.

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