coruscation
Americannoun
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the act of coruscating.
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a sudden gleam or flash of light.
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a striking display of brilliance or wit.
noun
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a gleam or flash of light
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a sudden or striking display of brilliance, wit, etc
Etymology
Origin of coruscation
First recorded in 1480–90, coruscation is from the Late Latin word coruscātiōn- (stem of coruscātiō ). See coruscate, -ion
Example Sentences
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Nor is there now any blinding coruscation of genius.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is about one quarter as broad as the full moon, and our largest aperture reveals the faint coruscation of its crowded components.
From Pleasures of the telescope An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers by Garrett Putman Serviss
Its phosphoric coruscation filled the Projectile with white streams of lurid light, tinging the contents with a pallor indescribably ghastly.
From All Around the Moon by Edward Roth
The instinctive impulse or spasm of expiring vitality,—like the brilliant gleam or coruscation of the expiring taper, is expended in a series of tremendous death-throes.
From Memorials of the Sea My Father: Being Records of the Adventurous Life of the Late William Scoresby, Esq. of Whitby by William Scoresby
The stars and the fiery pen exploded in a wild coruscation of searing, blinding light and he plunged from his spiral into a black abyss.
From The Skylark of Space by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
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