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lambency

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

noun

plural

lambencies
  1. the quality of being lambent.

  2. something that is lambent.


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 faint lambency still clung to the cliff.

From The Metal Monster by Merritt, Abraham

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

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

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