oriency
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]oriency (uncountable)
- (archaic) Brightness or strength of colour.
- 1671, Thomas Watson, The Beatitudes, page 41:
- So our Lord Chrift having ſet down ſeveral qualifications of a Chriſtin […] ſets the magnificent crown of reward upon them, that by this oriency, he might the more ſet forth their unparallel'd beauty, and entice holy love.
- 1663, Edward Waterhouse, Fortescutus Illustratus:
- one worthy man whoſe Juſtice has the oriency of a Carbuncle
- 1654, Nathan Culverwell, An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature:
- 'Tis granted that the picture has lost its gloſſe and beauty, the oriency of its colours, the elegancy of its lineaments, the comelineſſe of its proportion; muſt it therefore be totally defac'd?
References
[edit]- “oriency”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.