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lambency|ˈlæmbənsɪ|
[f. next: see -ency.]
1. The state or quality of being lambent or shining with a clear soft light like a flame. Also (with pl.) an instance or occurrence of such shining.
1817L. Hunt Day by the Fire in Hazlitt's Round Table II 146 Sometimes a little flame appears at the corner of the grate like a quivering spangle; sometimes it swells out at top into a restless and brief lambency. 1835New Monthly Mag. XLIII. 305 The morning star, melting into the east with its transcendent lambency and whiteness. 1845De Quincey Suspiria de Profundis i. in Blackw. Mag. LVII. 279 The fitful gloom and sudden lambencies of the room by fire-light suited our evening state of feelings. 1856Ruskin Mod. Paint. IV. v. viii. §9 The soft lambency of the streamlet.
fig.1866Carlyle Remin. (1881) I. 86 But there were sacred lambencies, tongues of authentic flame from heaven which kindled what was best in one. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets viii. 250 So that his [Aristophanes'] splendour is like that of northern streamers in its lambency, though swift and piercing as forked lightnings in its intensity.
b. transf. Brilliance and delicate play of wit or fancy.
1871Carlyle in Mrs. Carlyle's Lett. I. 153 Thought, flowing out in lambencies of beautiful spontaneous wit and fancy. 1871Morley Vauvenargues in Crit. Misc. i. (1878) 14 The presence of a certain lambency and play even in the exposition of truths of perfect assurance. 1886Stevenson Pr. Otto i. iv. 51 A man of great erudition and some lambencies of wit.
¶2. In etymological sense: The action of licking.
1834Oxf. Univ. Mag. I. 176 The mother's tongue..with assiduous lambency has licked the unsightly cubs into shape. |