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coruscation

NOUN
  1. the occurrence of a small flash or spark
  2. a sudden or striking display of brilliance
    coruscations of great wit

How To Use coruscation In A Sentence

  • The pitchy pigment's obscuring weight seems to bank rather than smother the glimmering coruscations.
  • To the south-west hung Orion, showing like a pallid ghost through a tracery of iron-work and interlacing shapes above a dazzling coruscation of lights. When the Sleeper Wakes
  • Borealian coruscation, which is scarcely within the modest and placid idiosyncracies of sixpence, -- but a gleam of gentle and benign light, just to show where a sixpence had been, and allow you time to say The Caxtons — Complete
  • A coruscation of faces recalls the Malthusian horrors of the early 20 th-century Belgian artist James Ensor.
  • He quickly activated the transporter, then turned to watch Lal disappear in a coruscation of white light. Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light
  • coruscations of great wit
  • And what is very remarkable, in five brief clauses He repeats this word "glorify" five times, as if to His view a coruscation of glories played at that moment about the Cross. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • And with that, a blinding flash of blue light exploded from his frame, and a luminous wave of purple coruscation propagated outwards through the forest. Archive 2009-06-01
  • The stars had come out and the fireworks that announced the Festival were flying up in the sky and littering the big black nothing with flambeau and coruscation.
  • collection of perceptions" which makes up our consciousness may be an orderly phantasmagoria generated by the Ego, unfolding its successive scenes on the background of the abyss of nothingness; as a firework, which is but cunningly arranged combustibles, grows from a spark into a coruscation, and from a coruscation into figures, and words, and cascades of devouring fire, and then vanishes into the darkness of the night. Hume (English Men of Letters Series)
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