Word Meanings - ERADIATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Emission of radiance.

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• RADIANCE; RADIANCY
  The quality of being radiant; brilliancy; effulgence; vivid brightness; as, the radiance of the sun. Girt with omnipotence, with radiance crowned. Milton. What radiancy of glory, What light beyond compare ! Neale. Syn. -- Luster; brilliancy;
• EMISSION
  1. The act of sending or throwing out; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation; issue; as, the emission of light from the sun; the emission of heat from a fire; the emission of bank notes. issue bank notes. 2. That which is sent out,
• DEMISSION
  1. The act of demitting, or the state of being demitted; a letting down; a lowering; dejection. "Demission of mind." Hammond. Demission of sovereign authority. L'Estrange. 2. Resignation of an office.
• IRRADIANCE; IRRADIANCY
  1. The act of irradiating; emission of rays of light. 2. That which irradiates or is irradiated; luster; splendor; irradiation; brilliancy. Milton.
• IRREMISSION
  Refusal of pardon.
• DEMISSIONARY
  1. Pertaining to transfer or conveyance; as, a demissionary deed. 2. Tending to lower, depress, or degrade.
• REMISSION
  A temporary and incomplete subsidence of the force or violence of a disease or of pain, as destinguished from intermission, in which the disease completely leaves the patient for a time; abatement. 5. The act of sending back. Stackhouse. 6. Act
• PARDON; REMISSION
  -- Forgiveness, Pardon. Forgiveness is Anglo-Saxon, and pardon Norman French, both implying a giving back. The word pardon, being early used in our Bible, has, in religious matters, the same sense as forgiveness; but in the language of common life