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  • noun Plural form of irradiation.

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Examples

  • Whither go these majestic irradiations of the soul?

    Les Miserables 2008

  • All generous social irradiations spring from science, letters, arts, education.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Records at the NTSB cite more than 50 laser irradiations taking place around Las Vegas alone in a two-year span between 1993 and 1995.

    January 2005 2005

  • It was an evening of exceptional irradiations, and the west heaven gleamed like a foundry of all metals common and rare.

    Two on a Tower 2006

  • That of these two luminaries so much of their irradiations are suffered from time to time to shine down upon us, as he, whose infinite wisdom which dispenses every thing in exact weight and measure, knows will just serve to light us on our way in this night of our obscurity; so that your reverences and worships now find out, nor is it a moment longer in my power to conceal it from you,

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • He walked beside them like a spirit of good to comfort and benefit — to enlighten the darkness of life with irradiations of genius, to cheer it with his sympathy and love.

    The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

  • That of these two luminaries so much of their irradiations are suffered from time to time to shine down upon us, as he, whose infinite wisdom which dispenses every thing in exact weight and measure, knows will just serve to light us on our way in this night of our obscurity; so that your reverences and worships now find out, nor is it a moment longer in my power to conceal it from you,

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • This one appears to be strengthened by mental irradiations of hostility, violent intentions.

    Day Of The Dove 1966

  • On the psychological side are to be mentioned courtship and those sex irradiations that have so profoundly influenced art, literature, religion, polite society, sports and industry.

    A Preliminary Study of the Emotion of Love between the Sexes Sanford Bell

  • Wherefore such persons as be illuminated with the brightest irradiations of knowledge and of the veritie and due proportion of things, they are called by the learned men not _phantastics_ but _euphantasiote_, and of this sorte of phantasie are all good Poets, notable Captaines stratagematique, all cunning artificers and enginers, all Legislators

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

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