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Radiance   /rˈeɪdiəns/  /rˈeɪdjəns/   Listen
Radiance

noun
1.
The amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface.  Synonyms: glow, glowing.
2.
The quality of being bright and sending out rays of light.  Synonyms: effulgence, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency, shine.
3.
An attractive combination of good health and happiness.






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"Radiance" Quotes from Famous Books



... exil'd fate, "Our sacred walls again he bade us raise, "And to Jehovah rear the pile of praise. "Quickly these fond hopes faded from our eyes, "As the frail sun that gilds the wintry skies, "And spreads a moment's radiance o'er the plain, "Soon hid by clouds that ...
— Poems • Robert Southey

... while had seemed to Roosevelt so gray and dismal, had, in fact, slowly taken on new color. At times he had imagined that Dakota might satisfy him for a permanent residence, but that fancy, born of grief and disappointment, had vanished in the radiance of a new happiness. He had become engaged to Edith Carow, and he knew that the world for him and for her was that busy world where his friends were, and hers, and where he and she had ...
— Roosevelt in the Bad Lands • Hermann Hagedorn

... to me, dear Faith," he said, "to spend my boyhood in an atmosphere more like the glow of that firelight than anything I can compare it to, for its warmth and radiance; where very luxurious worldly circumstances were crowned with the full luxury of earthly love. But it was a love so heaven-directed, so heaven-blessed, that it was but the means of preparing me to go out into the cold ...
— Say and Seal, Volume II • Susan Warner

... lighter, until at last the sun touched the tops of the still trees, and poured its radiance over the hill. In the glow, the water of the chateau fountain seemed to turn to blood, and the stone faces crimsoned. The carol of the birds was loud and high, and, on the weather-beaten sill of the great window of the bed-chamber of Monsieur ...
— A Tale of Two Cities - A Story of the French Revolution • Charles Dickens

... While, therefore, John ran to the spring for fresh water, and Simeon the second sifted meal for corn-cakes, and Mary ground coffee, Rachel moved gently, and quietly about, making biscuits, cutting up chicken, and diffusing a sort of sunny radiance over the whole proceeding generally. If there was any danger of friction or collision from the ill-regulated zeal of so many young operators, her gentle "Come! come!" or "I wouldn't, now," was quite sufficient to ...
— Uncle Tom's Cabin • Harriet Beecher Stowe


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