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Radiance

noun

The amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface. Synonyms: glow, glowing.

The quality of being bright and sending out rays of light. Synonyms: effulgence, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency, shine.

An attractive combination of good health and happiness.

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"Radiance" Quotes from Famous Books

... spring, they could see nothing but snow-white ramparts and the evergreen foliage of the firs. Only from time to time would a beech leaf flutter in from the woods above, to comment on the waning year, and the warmth and radiance of the sun would vanish behind ...

— The Longest Journey • E. M. Forster

... showed that, even in her ignorance as a little embroiderer, she had the royal bearing of a princess. In the same way she knew that he was good, from seeing how lightly he walked over the herbs and the grass. Around them was a radiance of virtues and graces from the first hour of their meeting. Each interview had its special charm. It seemed to them as if their felicity in seeing each other ...

— The Dream • Emile Zola

... my senses; all terrors conceived before were annulled; the phantoms, whose armies had filled the wide spaces in front, were forgotten; the crash of the forest behind was unheard. In the reflection of that glory, Margrave's wan cheek seemed already restored to the radiance it wore when I saw it first in the ...

— The Lock and Key Library • Julian Hawthorne, Ed.

... oh, she was sweet to see! Her cheek was bright, and fairer than the fair, Each tress the sungleam shimmering o'er the sea; An open bible lay upon her knee, She had been reading from the volume old In meek and innocent simplicity, And tinging all things earthly with the gold The calmer, holier radiance ...

— The Minstrel - A Collection of Poems • Lennox Amott

... at the close of a brilliant autumn day, side by side with my old friend Andrew Hall, on a broad, vine-shaded piazza which faced the east, where the full moon was just rising above the rim of the Sierra, and replacing the rosy counter-glow of sunset with its silvery radiance. The sight was calculated to carry the minds of both back to the events of former years. But I noticed that Hall quickly changed the position of his chair, and sat down again with his back to the rising moon. He had managed to save some millions from ...

— The Moon Metal • Garrett P. Serviss

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