resplendency

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The suite followed in the other boats,--brown men and white, governors, ministers, and court dignitaries, in Windsor uniforms, but with an added resplendency of plumes, epaulettes, and gold lace. 

From The Hawaiian Archipelago by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

"Zinsheimer!" repeated a stentorian voice behind them, as the proud possessor of that historic name appeared, gorgeous in the resplendency of an expansive shirt bosom and a white carnation in his button-hole.

From A Star for a Night A Story of Stage Life by Janis, Elsie

The world of being shineth in this Day with the resplendency of this Divine Revelation.

From The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh by Shoghi Effendi

His courage failed him; to enter footsore, laden, and poorly dressed into the midst of such resplendency was to bring needless humiliation upon her he loved, if not to court repulse from her husband.

From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy, Thomas

The resplendency of its light enchanted them, its pure softness delighted them, its perfect regularity astonished them.

From All Around the Moon by Roth, Edward