effulgence

English

Alternative forms

• affulgence

Etymology

From Latin ex- (“out of, from”) and fulgere (“to shine”). By surface analysis, ef- +‎ Latin fulg(ere) +‎ -ence.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈfʌl.d͡ʒəns/

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Noun

effulgence (countable and uncountable, plural effulgences)

1. A state of being bright and radiant, splendor, brilliance.
   • 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter XII, in The Last Man. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

     […] the clear effulgence of the stars by night […]

   • 1875 January–December, Henry James, “Switzerland”, in Roderick Hudson (The Novels and Tales of Henry James; I), New York edition, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1907, →OCLC, page 457:

     He stood for a moment taking in the effulgence.

   • 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:

     Enough then, that I not only recognised my natural body from the mere aura and effulgence of certain of the powers that made up my spirit, […] .

   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 3:

     These jewels, drinking in the sunshine by day, gave it forth during the hours of darkness in a radiance of pink light and a soft effulgence as of moonbeams.

Related terms

• effulgent
• refulgence

Translations

state of being bright and radiant

• Esperanto: brilegeco
• German: Glanz (de) m