RESPLENDENCY

glory, resplendence, resplendency

(noun) brilliant radiant beauty; “the glory of the sunrise”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

resplendency (countable and uncountable, plural resplendencies)

resplendence, radiant beauty

(mathematics) A property of the truth of sentence structures in Peano arithmetic

Source: Wiktionary


Re*splen"dence, Re*splen"den*cy, n. Etym: [L. resplendentia.]

Definition: The quality or state of being resplendent; brilliant luster; vivid brightness; splendor. Son! thou in whom my glory I behold In full resplendence, heir of all my might. Milton. The resplendency of his own almighty goodness. Dr. J. Scott.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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COWBERRY

(noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries


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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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