lambency

[ lam-buhn-see ]

noun

, plural lam·ben·cies

1. the quality of being lambent.
2. something that is lambent.

Word History and Origins

Origin of lambency¹

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

Example Sentences

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.

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Looking up, as she stood there stricken motionless, she saw him transfigured to a glowing lambency by the blaze of the setting sun full on his face; and he, staring down, saw her against it.

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There was a core of intensity, intolerably bright; about that, lambency but no flame, in which I saw leaves and straws and fronds of fern flickering, spiring, heeling over and over.

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

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The sky, flooded with moonlight, was of a wonderful lambency and depth; across the whole arch of heaven a band of cloud, fashioned strangely into carven shapes, defiled in solemn march.

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