prefulgency

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Etymology

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From Latin praefulgens, present participle of praefulgere (“to shine forth”). See pre- and fulgent.

Noun

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prefulgency (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) superior brightness or effulgency
    • a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). A Treatise on the Pope's Supremacy”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
      the prefulgency of his excellent worth and merit
    • 1862, D. Barnstorff, A Key to Shakespeare's Sonnets, page 126:
      We are here occupied with an analytical exposition that tasked the mind of a Shakespeare throughout his whole life, which served as a support to his spirit, and which he dedicated to future and more enlightened ages, hoping that, Psych-like, it would some day burst its enthralment, and display itself in all its intellectual prefulgency.
    • 1891, Charles Frederick Forshaw ·, A Legend of St. Bees, and Other Poems, page 213:
      Would that the coyful muse would cool my brow And my brain fill with blest prefulgency, So that I might describe my ecstasy.
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