Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The quality of being lambent; that which is lambent; a lambent gleam.
Wiktionary
- n. The property of being lambent, brightness.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an appearance of reflected light
Examples
“The ferry station, a floating wooden structure painted blue and white, creaked on currents glinting with the copper lambency of the expiring day.”
“Suddenly the whole delta shape of the craft flashed purple and a beam lanced down onto the Pathfinder enveloping it in a surreal lambency.”
“Like a cloud moving across the sun, sadness dimmed the lambency in her eyes.”
“Now there was a movement — far, far away; a concentrating of the lambency; the dead-alive swayed, oscillated, separated — forming a long lane against whose outskirts they crowded with avid, hungry insistence.”
“One pulsed and spiralled in its evilly glorious lambency of sparkling plumes.”
“They were both rayless and strangely — lightless; they threw no shadows nor did their lambency lessen the dimness.”
“At first all that I could see was a space filled with the saffron lambency.”
“Not the stuff of beauty, not even the body of beauty, but a lambency, the warm, white flame of a single life, revealing itself in contours that one might touch: a body!”
“Because, knowing it, I could not fail to recognize the answering stir within the Mahrkagir himself; the tender line of his mouth, the lambency of his gaze, all announcing as loud as trumpets the dawning of that which he had never known, of that sacred mystery which is the province of Blessed Elua himself.”
“Whatever lay behind the gem™s lambency, the darkness in the ring, refused to lie quiet.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lambency’.
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What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
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Cold comfort farm again
cowdling, dormer, mullion, scullion, snood, snoot, scranlet, kith, oleaginous, lambency, dissever, loafing and 27 more...
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Cold Comfort Farm
From the novel by Stella Gibbons
tyro, bustle, locust years, lambency, mere, berg, fen, bilious, cataclysm, flapdoodle, vulgar, serener and 98 more...
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Having: C; m; e
Goodies pulled from a list I've compiled of most-every word having these letters in common — It's going take to take a long, long time to actually get through (and I may want to extend it lat...
chamber, chimney, compesce, imperch, ipom�ic, lambency, premier cru, recumbence, simnelcake, succumbence, umbeschew, almacle and 631 more...
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Words i had to look up
hermeneutics, flimflam, semi-parodic, motes, susurrations, phantasm, egregiously, monoglot, galluptious, exigency, agrimony, gibbous and 111 more...
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Speak, Memory
Words gathered while reading Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov.
cracknel, shingly, glaucous, stretcherman, goodish, loden, gutticle, percha, plasticine, instar, wellhole, camera-lucida and 357 more...
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Awesome
Awesome words
mimsy, concupiscence, tumescent, ophidian, houri, vorpal, cyprian, Delphic, incipient, effete, existential, loam and 289 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...
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simple & useful words
sallow, rejoinder, ooziness, nimbleness, volitional, unsavory, parched, discordant, hampering, ramshackle, irresolute, slithery and 79 more...
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7 apr 2012
Long-overdue words found elsewhere.
apocryphal, gumption, nous, inoculate, bubonic, hierophant, tumescent, declivitous, capacious, veritable, disquisition, Stentorian and 40 more...
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Louises "First burned in my mind with pure lambency ten years ago". Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm. Feb 15, 2013