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Word Meanings - BRILLIANCY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality of being brilliant; splendor; glitter; great brighness, whether in a literal or figurative sense. With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought. Longfellow.

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  • LUSTRE
    See LUSTER
  • SPLENDOR
    1. Great brightness; brilliant luster; brilliancy; as, the splendor ot the sun. B. Jonson. 2. Magnifience; pomp; parade; as, the splendor of equipage, ceremonies, processions, and the like. "Rejoice in splendor of mine own." Shak. 3. Brilliancy;
  • BRILLIANCY
    The quality of being brilliant; splendor; glitter; great brighness, whether in a literal or figurative sense. With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought. Longfellow.
  • GLARE
    1. To shine with a bright, dazzling light. The cavern glares with new-admitted light. Dryden. 2. To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely. And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon. Byron. 3. To be bright and
  • LUMINOSITY
    The quality or state of being luminous; luminousness.
  • GLAREOUS
    Glairy. John Georgy .
  • BRIGHTNESS
    1. The quality or state of being bright; splendor; luster; brilliancy; clearness. A sudden brightness in his face appear. Crabbe. 2. Acuteness ; sharpness 9wit. The brightness of his parts . . . distinguished him. Prior. Syn. -- Splendor; luster;
  • RADIANCE; RADIANCY
    The quality of being radiant; brilliancy; effulgence; vivid brightness; as, the radiance of the sun. Girt with omnipotence, with radiance crowned. Milton. What radiancy of glory, What light beyond compare ! Neale. Syn. -- Luster; brilliancy;
  • EFFULGENCE
    The state of being effulgent; extreme brilliancy; a flood of light; great luster or brightness; splendor. The effulgence of his glory abides. Milton. The bright and the balmy effulgence of morn. Beattie.
  • BRILLIANCE
    Brilliancy. Tennyson.
  • LACKLUSTER; LACKLUSTRE
    A want of luster. -- a.
  • IRRADIANCE; IRRADIANCY
    1. The act of irradiating; emission of rays of light. 2. That which irradiates or is irradiated; luster; splendor; irradiation; brilliancy. Milton.
  • OUTLUSTER; OUTLUSTRE
    To excel in brightness or luster. Shak.
  • LUSTERLESS; LUSTRELESS
    Destitute of luster; dim; dull.
  • BURGLARER
    A burglar.
  • SPLENDROUS; SPLENDOROUS
    Splendid. Drayton.
  • APLUSTRE
    An ornamental appendage of wood at the ship's stern, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather. Audsley.
  • LUSTER; LUSTRE
    A period of five years; a lustrum. Both of us have closed the tenth luster. Bolingbroke.

 

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