coruscation

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Nor is there now any blinding coruscation of genius.

From Time Magazine Archive

Again there was a coruscation of coded flashes.

From The Great Dome on Mercury by Zagat, Arthur Leo

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

They seemed to speak together as if in some scene or passage of celestial drama, nor did I know which was the diviner speech, the moon's unwavering effulgence or that leaping coruscation of the stars.

From Apologia Diffidentis by Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock)

As for Eve, what coquetry there was in her nature was but the innocent coruscation of happy spirits, the desire to see her power, the necessity of being dear to all she touched.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 by Various