Word Meanings - EFFULGENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The state of being effulgent; extreme brilliancy; a flood of light; great luster or brightness; splendor. The effulgence of his glory abides. Milton. The bright and the balmy effulgence of morn. Beattie.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EFFULGENCE)

• Glory
• Brightness
• radiance
• effulgence
• honor
• fame
• celebrity
• pomp
• luster
• magnificence
• splendor
• renown
• Radiance
• lustre
• brilliancy
• brilliance
• glare

Related words: (words related to EFFULGENCE)

• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• LUSTRE
  See LUSTER
• RENOWNED
  Famous; celebrated for great achievements, for distinguished qualities, or for grandeur; eminent; as, a renowned king. "Some renowned metropolis with glistering spires." Milton. These were the renouwned of the congregation. Num. i. 61.
• HONORABLENESS
  1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
• SPLENDOR
  1. Great brightness; brilliant luster; brilliancy; as, the splendor ot the sun. B. Jonson. 2. Magnifience; pomp; parade; as, the splendor of equipage, ceremonies, processions, and the like. "Rejoice in splendor of mine own." Shak. 3. Brilliancy;
• BRILLIANCY
  The quality of being brilliant; splendor; glitter; great brighness, whether in a literal or figurative sense. With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought. Longfellow.
• RENOWNEDLY
  With renown.
• GLARE
  1. To shine with a bright, dazzling light. The cavern glares with new-admitted light. Dryden. 2. To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely. And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon. Byron. 3. To be bright and
• RENOWNLESS
  Without renown; inglorius.
• RENOWNER
  One who gives renown.
• HONOR
  1. Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence. A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country. Matt. xiii.
• GLAREOUS
  Glairy. John Georgy .
• LUSTER
  One who lusts.
• HONORARY
  1. Done as a sign or evidence of honor; as, honorary services. Macaulay. 2. Conferring honor, or intended merely to confer honor without emolument; as, an honorary degree. "Honorary arches." Addison. 3. Holding a title or place without rendering
• LUSTERING
  1. The act or process of imparting a luster, as to pottery. 2. The brightening of a metal in the crucible when it becomes pure, as in certain refining processes.
• LUSTERLESS; LUSTRELESS
  Destitute of luster; dim; dull.
• MAGNIFICENCE
  The act of doing what magnificent; the state or quality of being magnificent. Acts xix. 27. "Then cometh magnificence." Chaucer. And, for the heaven's wide circuit, let it speak The Maker's high magnificence, who built so spacious. Milton.
• CELEBRITY
  1. Celebration; solemnization. The celebrity of the marriage. Bacon. 2. The state or condition of being celebrated; fame; renown; as, the celebrity of Washington. An event of great celebrity in the history of astronomy. Whewell. 3. A person of
• HONORLESS
  Destitute of honor; not honored. Bp. Warburton.
• BRIGHTNESS
  1. The quality or state of being bright; splendor; luster; brilliancy; clearness. A sudden brightness in his face appear. Crabbe. 2. Acuteness ; sharpness 9wit. The brightness of his parts . . . distinguished him. Prior. Syn. -- Splendor; luster;
• CLUSTERY
  Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters. Johnson.
• LACKLUSTER; LACKLUSTRE
  A want of luster. -- a.
• IRRADIANCE; IRRADIANCY
  1. The act of irradiating; emission of rays of light. 2. That which irradiates or is irradiated; luster; splendor; irradiation; brilliancy. Milton.
• DISHONOR
  The nonpayment or nonacceptance of commercial paper by the party on whom it is drawn. Syn. -- Disgrace; ignominy; shame; censure; reproach; opprobrium. (more info) deshonur, F. déshonneur; pref. des- + honor, honur, F. 1. Lack of honor;
• BLUSTERINGLY
  In a blustering manner.
• IRRENOWNED
  Not renowned.
• OUTLUSTER; OUTLUSTRE
  To excel in brightness or luster. Shak.