Radiance
['reɪdɪəns] or ['redɪəns]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light.
(noun.) the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface.
(noun.) an attractive combination of good health and happiness; 'the radiance of her countenance'.
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Definition
(n.) Alt. of Radiancy
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Brilliance, brilliancy, lustre, brightness, splendor, resplendence, effulgence, refulgence.
Typist: Marion
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Brightness, splendor, lustre, brilliancy, brilliance, effulgence, glare
ANT:Dullness, opaque
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Examples
- He did not like this crouching, this radiance--not altogether. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- An unmistakable delight shone forth from the blue eyes that met his, and the radiance seemed to light up all his future with mild sunshine. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It was true that her early radiance was gone. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- It was the weather to call out May's radiance, and she burned like a young maple in the frost. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The sun had bathed in gold the western atmosphere, and in the east the clouds caught the radiance, and budded into transient loveliness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- At last, the lighted way, he cried, and looking up I beheld at a long distance before us a dim radiance. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Her colour did not change, but a sort of white radiance of anger ran over her like summer lightning. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Gerty sparkled too; or at least shone with a tempered radiance. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Whatever she was in other people's memories, in his she was the sublime saint whose radiance even his tenderness for Eustacia could not obscure. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Then I glanced below me, and there I saw a rapidly diminishing circle of light--the mouth of the opening above the phosphorescent radiance of Omean. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- It was as if he might enter straight into the source of her radiance. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Lighter and lighter, until at last the sun touched the tops of the still trees, and poured its radiance over the hill. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- What a new life it was going to be, with this whiteness, radiance, goodness at one's side! Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- With my men had gone the last torch, nor was this corridor lighted by the radiance of phosphorescent rock as were those of the lower levels. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
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