[f. next: see -ENCE.] The quality of being effulgent, splendid radiance. lit. and fig.
1667. Milton, P. L., III. 388. On thee Impresst the effulgence of his Glorie abides.
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist. (1862), I. xxi. 135/1. In the first half of its [a meteor’s] visible course, it emitted a prodigious effulgence.
1821. Craig, Lect. Drawing, ii. 102–3. The splendour of rich colour is to be found only in the effulgence of light.
