Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as resplendence.

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  • noun resplendence, radiant beauty
  • noun mathematics A property of the truth of sentence structures in Peano arithmetic

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  • noun brilliant radiant beauty

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Examples

  • And borrows Pearl resplendency from her resplendent light;

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Sublimely, this time, and just by feel, light was even dimmer inside the war machine than merely beneath the overhang that had been gutted out for it keeping its resplendency restrained.

    If Ed Wood had been a writer instead of a film maker... Jeff 2006

  • Sublimely, this time, and just by feel, light was even dimmer inside the war machine than merely beneath the overhang that had been gutted out for it keeping its resplendency restrained.

    Archive 2006-01-01 Jeff 2006

  • Sublimely, this time, and just by feel, light was even dimmer inside the war machine than merely beneath the overhang that had been gutted out for it keeping its resplendency restrained.

    01/01/2006 - 01/08/2006 Miss Snark 2006

  • Sublimely, this time, and just by feel, light was even dimmer inside the war machine than merely beneath the overhang that had been gutted out for it keeping its resplendency restrained.

    Archive 2006-01-01 Miss Snark 2006

  • The suite followed in the other boats, — brown men and white, governors, ministers, and court dignitaries, in Windsor uniforms, but with an added resplendency of plumes, epaulettes, and gold lace.

    The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

  • Upon that they wore a white plume, most prettily and minion-like parted by so many rows of gold spangles, at the end whereof hung dangling in a more sparkling resplendency fair rubies, emeralds, diamonds,

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Upon that they wore a white plume, most prettily and minion-like parted by so many rows of gold spangles, at the end whereof hung dangling in a more sparkling resplendency fair rubies, emeralds, diamonds,

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • He didn't know where to find that faded resplendency.

    Starfarers Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1998

  • Herein he is apaugasma tēs doxēs, the effulgency, the resplendency of divine glory, that wherein the divine glory shines forth in an evident manifestation of itself unto us.

    Christologia 1616-1683 1965

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