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- noun Plural form of
radiancy .
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Examples
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And Kennaston looked about him now, to find fog everywhere -- impenetrable vapors which vaguely showed pearl-colored radiancies here and there, but no determinable forms of trees or of houses, or of anything save the face of Ettarre, so clearly discerned and so lovely in that strange separate cloud of roseate light.
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Portinari gave to the magnificoes and dignitaries, the notables and worthies, the graces and the radiancies of Florence -- a feast that, memorable in itself, was yet more memorable from all that came of it by what we in our wisdom or our ignorance call chance.
The God of Love 1898
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"For it is a night of pearl-like radiancies and velvet shadows and delicate odors and big friendly stars that promise not to gossip, whatever happens.
The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 1918
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"For it is a night of pearl-like radiancies and velvet shadows and delicate odors and big friendly stars that promise not to gossip, whatever happens.
The Certain Hour 1909
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