radiancyn.

1595 M. Drayton Endimion & Phœbe sig. F2^v Her richest Globe shee gloriously displayes, Now that the Sun had hid his golden rayes: Least that his radiencie should her suppresse.

1650 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica (ed. 2) ii. v. 98 Too high an apprehension [of the Carbuncle] and above its naturall radiancy.

1693 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. I. vii. 243 The Radiency, the Splendour of Moses's Face.

1702 L. Echard Gen. Eccl. Hist. i. ii. 49 The Skies were divided with great Radiency.

a1785 R. Glover Athenaid (1787) 153 A warrior bright in gold, for valour more Conspicuous still than radiancy of arms.

1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab ii. 17 The billowy clouds Edged with intolerable radiancy.

1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets vii. 230 Euripides incontestably displays the quality of radiancy.

1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage l. 258 His youth with its bright hopes and the disappointments which wore out the radiancy.

1925 V. Woolf Mrs. Dalloway 57 One woman who sat in her drawing room and made a meeting-point, a radiancy no doubt in some dull lives.

1956 Times 3 Aug. 5/4 In order to obtain a transparent radiancy of effect gold material..will be distributed throughout the entire mosaic surface.

2005 West Briton (Nexis) 31 Mar. 11 The cross was then transformed from suffering into the radiancy of new life.