refulgency

“It has the refulgency of copper pyrites, of gold, of Florentine bronze.”

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles

“The Spaniards and negroes bore each a burning torch in his hand; the blaze of which, as they held them elevated above their heads, cast a strange and fearful light through the deep darkness, and illumined the ocean far and wide with a supernatural refulgency.”

Three Weeks in the Downs, or Conjugal Fidelity Rewarded: exemplified in the Narrative of Helen and Edmund

“I Arise, my dear Belinda, before one beam from Sol’s refulgency has gilded with its glorious brightness our horizon, to tell you that I now hope for permission to see you in Bath in a very few days, and that I shall doubtless be attended by my dear”

Vicissitudes in Genteel Life