brilliancy

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Brilliancy prizes went out of favor, partly because the winners were often controversial.

From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2011

Brilliancy or poverty in intellect does not act as a unit and apply to all lives equally.

From How to Teach by Strayer, George Drayton

He discovers no Idea of the Surprize, and Brilliancy of Wit, or of the sudden Light thrown upon a Subject.

From An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) by Clifford, James L.

Brilliancy, so-called, is no equivalent or substitute for precision.

From The History of Dartmouth College by Smith, Baxter Perry

Brilliancy in conversation is to the company what a lighted candle is to a dark room—it lightens the whole of it.

From The Man Who Pleases and the Woman Who Charms by Cone, John A.