Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Brightness; luster; splendor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Brightness.
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- noun The quality of
shining ;brightness .
Etymologies
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Examples
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That lay around the rest of the Phosphoric Ocean, not as a boundary but as a shiningness unimaginably remote, within which the curve of the planet lost itself in its own vastness.
The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985
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Off across the valley, a herd of beasts catches the shiningness on their horns.
Explorations ANDERSON, Poul 1981
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The shiningness, tangled with darkness strands, showed no awareness of how they had become the power group.
The Battle of Forever Van Vogt, A. E. 1971
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And there was a shiningness against sky-black, a field of light, stars all around.
Starways Anderson, Poul 1956
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Together with those remote wisps of shiningness out there in that gulf of blackness, it made up the world in which he had his existence.
The Voyage of the Space Beagle Van Vogt, A. E. 1950
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"It thinks of stars beyond stars, but always that picture of a sickle reaping shiningness.
Starways Anderson, Poul 1956
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"It is the shiningness of my lamp, which the cruel darkness drove out.
Harper's Young People, December 9, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly Various
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"It is the shiningness of my lamp, which the cruel darkness drove out.
Stephen Archer and Other Tales George MacDonald 1864
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