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countable and uncountable, plural effulgences
A state of being bright and radiant, splendor, brilliance. quotations examples
He stood for a moment taking in the effulgence.
1875, Henry James, Roderick Hudson, New York Edition 1909, hardcover, page 457
[...]-the clear effulgence of the stars by night-[...].
1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter XII, in The Last Man. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […]