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† reˈsplendour, n. Obs.
Also 5 -eur, 7 -or.
[a. OF. resplendor, -ur, -eur, = Sp. and Pg. resplendor, It. risplendore: cf. resplend v. and splendour.]
Splendour, brightness.
c1477Caxton Jason 20 Your resplendour is clere among the women as the sonne is among the sterres. 1483― Gold. Leg. 422/3 In resplendour or lyghte of alle good vertues. 1560Rolland Crt. Venus ii. 575 Of phebus the..resplendour Refreschit him. 1582N. Lichefield tr. Castanheda's Conq. E. Ind. i. 79 b, Out of it there came such a resplendour or brightnes, that it blinded mens eyes. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. ii. 2 Reaching forth such a Resplendour and fullnesse of light unto us. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. xi. (1686) 270 The resplendor and ray of some interior..Beauty.
Hence † reˈsplendour v., to make resplendent.
1632Lithgow Trav. x. 500 Soiles so abundant in all things, fit to illustrate greatnesse, Resplendour Gentry, and succour Commons. |