Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Splendor; dazzling brightness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Dazzling brightness; splendor.
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- noun Splendor, splendour; dazzling brightness.
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Examples
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“Unguinum fulgor” of the Latins who did not forget to celebrate the shining of the nails although they did not Henna them like Easterns.
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Sensibile forte destruit sensum, a strong object overcometh the sight, according to that axiom in philosophy: fulgorem solis ferre non potes, multo magis creatoris; if thou canst not endure the sunbeams, how canst thou endure that fulgor and brightness of him that made the sun?
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Forma est vitalis fulgor ex ipso bono manans per ideas, semina, rationes, umbras effusus, animos excitans ut per bonum in unum redigantur.
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Fulgebat vultu suo: fulgor et divina majestas homines ad se trahens.
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A moment later, the door and windows flashed with a majestic fulgor.
In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984
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He lay there, counting the seconds, knowing that he and his slowly drifting surf-boat were still in the full white fulgor of the wavering searchlight.
Never-Fail Blake Arthur Stringer 1912
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Tartareus cupiat Phlegethon Stygiaeque paludes! inter liuentis pereat tibi fulgor arenas, nec post ad superos redeat famis aurea puros!
Gold Tiberianus 1912
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Non sic prata nouo uere decentia aestatis calidae despoliat uapor, 5 saeuit solstitio cum medius dies et noctes breuibus praecipitant rotis languescunt folio et lilia pallido: ut gratae capiti deficiunt comae et fulgor teneris qui radiat genis10 momento rapitur nullaque non dies formonsi spolium corporis abstulit. res est forma fugax: quis sapiens bono confidat fragili? dum licet, utere. tempus te tacitum subruit, horaque15 semper praeterita deterior subit.
Fatal Beauty 1912
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She held on straight for the Red Sea under a serene sky, under a sky scorching and unclouded, enveloped in a fulgor of sunshine that killed all thought, oppressed the heart, withered all impulses of strength and energy.
Lord Jim 1900
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She held on straight for the Red Sea under a serene sky, under a sky scorching and unclouded, enveloped in a fulgor of sunshine that killed all thought, oppressed the heart, withered all impulses of strength and energy.
Lord Jim 1899
qms commented on the word fulgor
There's many a Christmas aesthetic,
Serene to the wildly frenetic.
Electrical fulgor
I find rather vulgar
And opt for a style more ascetic.
January 14, 2016