coruscation

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Nor is there now any blinding coruscation of genius.

From Time Magazine Archive

The successive discharges occur of course in different places, and the state of things before, at, and after a single coruscation or brush can be exceedingly well separated.

From Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Faraday, Michael

It was bright with a long ray from the white sun that peered below a cloud, seeming to her dazzled eyes surrounded by a coruscation of coloured rays.

From Love of Brothers by Tynan, Katharine

As for Eve, what coquetry there was in her nature was but the innocent coruscation of happy spirits, the desire to see her power, the necessity of being dear to all she touched.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 by Various

As the party retreated, not two, but ten fires were seen gleaming among the trees, filling the forest with their bright coruscation.

From Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops by Reid, Mayne