Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A flash or gleam of light; a burst or play of light, as the reflection of lightning by clouds or of moonlight on the sea.
- noun Figuratively, a flash or gleam of intellectual brilliancy.
- noun Synonyms See
glare , v.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A sudden flash or play of light.
- noun A flash of intellectual brilliancy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A sudden display of
brilliance ; a flashing of light, asparkle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a sudden or striking display of brilliance
- noun the occurrence of a small flash or spark
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Examples
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Borealian coruscation, which is scarcely within the modest and placid idiosyncracies of sixpence, -- but a gleam of gentle and benign light, just to show where a sixpence had been, and allow you time to say
The Caxtons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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And with that, a blinding flash of blue light exploded from his frame, and a luminous wave of purple coruscation propagated outwards through the forest.
Archive 2009-06-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
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And with that, a blinding flash of blue light exploded from his frame, and a luminous wave of purple coruscation propagated outwards through the forest.
The creation of Brown-man Gordon McCabe 2009
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He quickly activated the transporter, then turned to watch Lal disappear in a coruscation of white light.
Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light David R. George III 2010
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One more coruscation, my dear Watson -- yet another brain-wave!
Chennai 2010
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Barack Obama: a coruscation of rhetoric masking a lack of weight and balance.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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To the south-west hung Orion, showing like a pallid ghost through a tracery of iron-work and interlacing shapes above a dazzling coruscation of lights.
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The newspapers and magazines that fed the American mind — for books upon this impatient continent had become simply material for the energy of collectors — were instantly a coruscation of war pictures and of headlines that rose like rockets and burst like shells.
The War in the Air Herbert George 2006
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Duchesse de Guermantes, for her part, took good care not to invite when it was her turn to entertain the Princess, but substituted for them without any abstract reasoning about Bonapartism the most brilliant coruscation of all the beauties, all the talents, all the celebrities, who, the exercise of some subtle sixth sense made her feel, would be acceptable to the niece of the Emperor even when they belonged actually to the Royal House.
The Guermantes Way 2003
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Darken Rahl came closer, close enough that the pain of his spirit coruscation was almost enough to make Richard back away.
Temple of the Winds Goodkind, Terry 1997
adoarns commented on the word coruscation
Also, a symptom of having flashes of light pass before the eyes.
January 28, 2008
jaime_d commented on the word coruscation
from Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus"
January 11, 2009