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lambency

American  
[lam-buhn-see] / ˈlæm bən si /

noun

lambencies plural
  1. the quality of being lambent.

  2. something that is lambent.


Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

Etymology

Origin of lambency

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

Example Sentences

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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

A hundred feet away the Shining One pulsed and spiralled in its evilly glorious lambency of sparkling plumes.

From The Moon Pool by Merritt, Abraham

Still there remained a dark lambency of anticipation.

From Women in Love by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

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

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

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