effulgence

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Inasmuch as the effulgence is one effulgence, the human realities must all become recipients of the same light, recognizing in it the compelling force that unites them in its illumination As this is the radiant century, it is my hope that the Sun of Truth may illumine all humanity.

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  1. noun A brilliant radiance.

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  • Shall we not only put out, but shatter, the lamp of liberty, a lamp whose effulgence was beginning to scatter the shades of despotism from off the earth? —  Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Father and His Youngest Sister, 1857-78
  • Astonishing how he blazed out again, quite into his old pride and effulgence, after this, says Retzow. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • Inasmuch as the effulgence is one effulgence, the human realities must all become recipients of the same light, recognizing in it the compelling force that unites them in its illumination As this is the radiant century, it is my hope that the Sun of Truth may illumine all humanity. —  The Promulgation of Universal Peace
  • Inasmuch as the effulgence is one effulgence, the human realities must all become recipients of the same light, recognizing in it the compelling force that unites them in its illumination. —  The Promulgation of Universal Peace
  • Street legal in all 62 states and provinces. —  Analog Science Fiction and Fact
 

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  1. = Spanish efulgencia, from Latin effulgen(t-)s, present participle: see effulgent.
 

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