coruscation

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Nor is there now any blinding coruscation of genius.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Daisy by Warner, Susan

The stars and the fiery pen exploded in a wild coruscation of searing, blinding light and he plunged from his spiral into a black abyss.

From The Skylark of Space by Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer)

The instinctive impulse or spasm of expiring vitality,—like the brilliant gleam or coruscation of the expiring taper, is expended in a series of tremendous death-throes.

From Memorials of the Sea My Father: Being Records of the Adventurous Life of the Late William Scoresby, Esq. of Whitby by Scoresby, William

Lowenorn, recognized the coruscation of the polar light in bright sunshine, 196.

From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Humboldt, Alexander von