radiance
noun
radiant brightness or light.
radiances
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pluralof radiance.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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These seemed to come rather by contrast and for encouragement; for the work was distinctly pathological, and dealt with the disasters and complications of emotions, as a rule, rather than with their glories and radiances.
From The Child of the Dawn by Arthur Christopher Benson
They were all living radiances against the dropped curtain of the world.
From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Marsden Hartley
The Past, full of heavenly radiances, which issued, alas, in flames and sooty conflagrations as of Erebus,—let us forget it, and be taught by it!
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 by Thomas Carlyle
The jagged crest of the peak shot sudden radiances of flame-crimson, then bathed itself in a flow of rose-pinks and thin, indescribable reds and pulsating golds.
From Kings in Exile by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
And she is there, that is a pyramid Whereon the stars, the statues of the dead, Are imaged over the eternal hall, A group of radiances majestical!
From The Death-Wake or Lunacy; a Necromaunt in Three Chimeras by Andrew Lang
