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lambency

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[lam-buhn-see] / ˈlæm bən si /

noun

lambencies plural
  1. the quality of being lambent.

  2. something that is lambent.


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Etymology

Origin of lambency

First recorded in 1810–20; lamb(ent) + -ency

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Its climate has not the smart alpine tang of St. Moritz, but the balmy southern lambency of Italian Stresa, just across the lake.

From Time Magazine Archive

Glory of the poet, glow O’ the humorist who castigates his kind, Suave summer-lightning lambency which plays On stag-horned tree, misshapen crag askew, Then vanishes with unvindictive smile After a moment’s laying black earth bare.

From Browning and His Century by Clarke, Helen Archibald

It has none of the brilliant Orientalism of Balakirew and Cui, none of Rimsky-Korsakoff's soft felicity and lambency and light sensuousness.

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Rosenfeld, Paul

They were both rayless and strangely—lightless; they threw no shadows nor did their lambency lessen the dimness.

From The Metal Monster by Merritt, Abraham

Now there was a movement—far, far away; a concentrating of the lambency; the dead-alive swayed, oscillated, separated—forming a long lane against whose outskirts they crowded with avid, hungry insistence.

From The Moon Pool by Merritt, Abraham

Flares and flames of pale emerald, steady glowing of flame rubies, glints and lambencies of deepest sapphire, of wan sapphire, flickering opalescences, irised glitterings.

From The Metal Monster by Merritt, Abraham

‘I am perusing,’ answered the young gentleman, ‘the last work of the Herr Doctor Hohenstockwitz, cousin and librarian of your Prince here in Grünewald—a man of great erudition and some lambencies of wit.’

From Prince Otto, a Romance by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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