fulgency

English

Etymology

See fulgent.

Noun

fulgency (usually uncountable, plural fulgencies)

1. (obsolete) brightness; splendour; glitter; effulgence
   • 1787, Tobias George Smollett, The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, volume 63:

     Besides, that from its fulgency it appears like flame.

   • 1825, Joseph Belcher, Poetical Sketches of Biblical Subjects:

     Still but a shadow of his fulgency, His splendour shaded in that shrine of light;

   • 1937, Law Notes, volume 41:

     Let the fulgency of the integrity of American constitutional interpretation remain undiminished and untarnished.