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noun

Coruscation n.

A sudden flash or play of light. "A very vivid but exceeding short-lived splender, not to call it a little coruscation."

A flash of intellectual brilliancy. "He might have illuminated his times with the incessant coruscations of his genius."

Synonyms: Flash; glitter; blaze; gleam; sparkle.

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Etymology of 'Coruscation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Coruscation" Quotes from Famous Books

... for the swan song of SUMNER, and looks longingly, without being gratified by the spectacle of the oratorical funeral pyre of NYE. Almost the only gleam of humor he discerns in his weekly wading through the watery and windy wastes of the Congressional Globe is a comic coruscation ...

— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870 • Various

... hunting a chance-started caprice. I admire Pope in the very highest degree; but I admire him as a pyrotechnic for producing brilliant and evanescent effects out of elements that have hardly a moment's life within them. There is a flash and a startling explosion, then there is a dazzling coruscation, all purple and gold; the eye aches under the suddenness of a display that, springing like a burning arrow out of darkness, rushes back into darkness with arrowy speed, and in a moment all is over. Like festal shows, or the hurrying ...

— Theological Essays and Other Papers v2 • Thomas de Quincey

... before, there had been misty exhalations from it, that oozed up into the sunshine of his fancy, and that took all the shapes of glisten or of gloom which his Protean genius gave them. In the rapid eccentricities of cloud and coruscation, the source which supplied to the varying forms so much of their substance was hidden or unminded. But now the fountain of thought and tragedy had been readied, whence the waters of sin and suffering spring forth clear and ...

— Atlantic Monthly Volume 6, No. 37, November, 1860 • Various

Words linked to "Coruscation" : genius, coruscate, glitter, flash, brilliance, sparkle