coruscation

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Nor is there now any blinding coruscation of genius.

From Time Magazine Archive

Should it "be compared to the coruscation of the electric fluid in the aurora borealis? or to the more magnificent cone of the zodiacal light?"

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)

He was wont to declare, and no one was inclined to contradict him, that whenever she appeared, something like a bright coruscation seemed to flash upon the eye.

From The Vicar of Wrexhill by Trollope, Mrs

She whom he had known four or five years previously so charming amid the din of a life of folly, and the coruscation of an ephemeral luxury, was now burned out like an exploded rocket.

From His Excellency the Minister by Roberts, Henri

"Indeed I do!" he said, with another slighter coruscation.

From Daisy by Warner, Susan