coruscation

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Nor is there now any blinding coruscation of genius.

From Time Magazine Archive

Out beyond, a coruscation of lights burnt like a group of topaz and rubies set in the silver shield of the night.

From Mr. Britling Sees It Through by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

But Mr. Davidson's wit is so brilliant within the circles of its temporary coruscation as to leave the outline of his work in a constant penumbra.

From Adventures in Criticism by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

The instinctive impulse or spasm of expiring vitality,—like the brilliant gleam or coruscation of the expiring taper, is expended in a series of tremendous death-throes.

From Memorials of the Sea My Father: Being Records of the Adventurous Life of the Late William Scoresby, Esq. of Whitby by Scoresby, William

Its phosphoric coruscation filled the Projectile with white streams of lurid light, tinging the contents with a pallor indescribably ghastly.

From All Around the Moon by Roth, Edward