radiancy

American  

[rey-dee-uhn-see] / ˈreɪ di ən si /

noun

plural

radiancies

1. radiance.

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Other Word Forms

• nonradiancy noun
• subradiancy noun

Etymology

Origin of radiancy

First recorded in 1640–50; radi(ant) + -ancy

Example Sentences

All nature and all humanity were bathed in a rosy glowing radiancy; and life for the future seemed naught but buoyancy and light.”

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2010

No radiancy of joy is in it, no assurance of bliss.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

There are folk-songs that reflect this radiancy with which love clothes dead children; songs for the last sleep full of all the confusion of fond epithets commonly addressed to living babies.

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn

There was a peculiar radiancy to his ministry which issued from this alacrity, the special glow that surrounds all lives that are nobly unselfish.

From Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati by Herrick, Warren Crocker

And now beyond the huge projecting shoulder of the Alpe d’Arpitetta the rays of the newly-risen sun were flooding the snowfields with a golden radiancy.

From Fordham's Feud by Mitford, Bertram