transplendency

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Noun[edit]

transplendency (uncountable)

  1. The quality or state of being transplendent.
    • 1672, Henry More, A brief Reply to a late Answer to Dr. Henry More his antidote against Idolatry:
      the Divine Transplendency appears
    • 1855, R. K. Ashley, Glances Over the Field of Faith and Reason:
      The Supreme glory dwells there, and there the cherubic forms fly on mystic wheels, and lighten the majestic scene with their transplendency.
    • 2012, Ephriam Sando, Madonna of the Snows / a Mass for Desdemona:
      that great aureole of white
      Transplendency that purifies the sight

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