refulgency

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

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

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 Anonymous 1829

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 1794