lambency

From lambent + -ency.

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lambency (countable and uncountable, plural lambencies)

1. The property of being lambent, brightness.
   • 1999, Seamus Heaney, “Introduction”, in Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page xix:

     [B]ecause of the centuries he has spent dormant in the tumulus, there is a foundedness as well as a lambency about him.

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