resplendency

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But she, fortified by a woman's strongest bulwark, the sense of resplendency, appeared quite unconscious of herself.

From Alice of Old Vincennes by Thompson, Maurice

At which my countenance beams with the shiny resplendency of self-satisfaction.

From Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. by Anstey, F.

His courage failed him; to enter footsore, laden, and poorly dressed into the midst of such resplendency was to bring needless humiliation upon her he loved, if not to court repulse from her husband.

From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy, Thomas

The lady of the portrait must have been some twenty odd years; she was no simple maiden, no half-opened rosebud, but a woman in the full resplendency of her beauty.

From First Love (Little Blue Book #1195) And Other Fascinating Stories of Spanish Life by Alarcón, Pedro Antonio de

In fact, no one can deny that they add great resplendency to the merits of the saints, and, consequently, give great weight to the example they afford us.

From The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi by Chalippe, Father Candide