Glitterance
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 a glittering, a sparkling with light poetic
"And now had Thalaba Perform’d his last ablutions, and he stood And gaz’d upon the little boat […] Till, from the glitterance of the sunny main, He turn’d his aching eyes, And then upon the beach he laid him down, And watch’d the rising tide."
Example
More examples"And now had Thalaba Perform’d his last ablutions, and he stood And gaz’d upon the little boat […] Till, from the glitterance of the sunny main, He turn’d his aching eyes, And then upon the beach he laid him down, And watch’d the rising tide."
Etymology
From glitter + -ance. Coined by Robert Southey in his 1801 Thalaba the Destroyer.
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