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brilliance|ˈbrɪljəns|
[f. brilliant: see -ance. No corresponding word in Fr.]
1. Intense or sparkling brightness or radiance, lustre, splendour.
[Not in Johnson 1755–73.]1755Young Centaur i. (1757) IV. 107 How far wit can set wisdom at defiance, and, with its artful brilliances, dazzle common understandings? 1830Tennyson Ode to Memory 20 Fruits Which in wintertide shall star The black earth with brilliance rare. 1879Howells L. Aroostook xxii. 243 The brilliance of a lamp that shot its red across the gloom. 1882Macm. Mag. 64 Roderigues stands out well between the blue brilliances of sky and sea.
2. fig.
1779Johnson L.P., Pope Wks. IV. 75 A scholar with great brilliance of wit. 1808J. Barlow Columb. i. 198 New strength and brilliance flush'd his mortal sight. 1842H. Rogers Introd. Burke's Wks. (1842) I. 3 Both [the brothers Burke] possessed much of the brilliance of mind which so eminently distinguished Edmund. 1880L. Stephen Pope 17 The story is told..with his usual brilliance by Macaulay.
¶ brilliance and brilliancy are to a great extent synonyms: brilliancy, however, is more distinctly a quality having degrees; as in the comparative brilliancy of two colours. |