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Resplendency

Definition: Resplendency

Resplendency

Noun

1. Brilliant radiant beauty; "the glory of the sunrise".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "resplendency" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1829. (references)


Synonyms: Resplendency

Synonyms: glory (n), resplendence (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translations: Resplendency

Language Translations for "resplendency"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

блясък (blaze, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, coruscation, dash, eclat, effulgence, fire, flash, glamor, glamour, glance, glint, glitter, glory, gloss, glossiness, heraldry, illumination, irradiation, lambency, light, luminance, luminosity, luster, lustre, pageantry, polish, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, resplendence, sheen, shine, sparkle, splendor, splendour). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μεγαλοπρέπεια (gorgeousness, grandiosity, loftiness, magnificence, majesty, pomp, resplendence, splendidness, stateliness), λάμψη (brightness, coruscation, eclat, effulgence, flare, flash, glare, glint, glisten, glitter, gloss, glow, limelight, luster, lustre, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, resplendence, shine, shininess, shining, splendor, splendour, twinkle), λαμπρότητα (brightness, brilliance, eclat, lightness, lucence, lucency, luminance, lustrousness, pomp, resplendence, sheen, splendidness, splendor, splendour), ανταύγεια (glint, resplendence, sheen). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

esplendencyray

   

Russian 

  

великолепие (blaze, brilliance, brilliancy, glory, grandeur, lordliness, magnificence, pageantry, pomp, pride, radiance, radiancy, resplendence, splendor, splendors, splendour), блеск (brilliance, brilliancy, coruscation, effulgence, flash, flying colors, glint, glitter, glitz, gloss, lambency, luster, lustre, radiance, radiancy, resplendence, scintillation, sheen, sheens, shine, shininess, splendor, splendour). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự rực rỡ (fulgentness, radiance, radiancy, refugence, refugency, resplendence, sheen, splendour), sự lộng lẫy (resplendence, sheen, splendour), sự chói lọi (resplendence, splendour). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Resplendency

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-e-l-n-n-p-r-s-y"

-4 letters: creneled, needlers, pendency, precedes, presence, screened, secerned, serenely.

-5 letters: creeled, crenels, decerns, decrees, deepens, densely, lenders, needers, needler, needles, pedlers, pedlery, peelers, pencels, penners, precede, preened, pyrenes, recedes, redeyes, relends, scenery, seceder, sleeper, slender, sneered, speeder, speeled, speered, spencer, spender, spleeny, ycleped, yelpers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Resplendency


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 73 70 6C 65 6E 64 65 6E 63 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-.    .    ...    .--.    .-..    .    -.    -..    .    -.    -.-.    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100101 01110011 01110000 01101100 01100101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01101110 01100011 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#115 &#112 &#108 &#101 &#110 &#100 &#101 &#110 &#99 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0073 0070 006C 0065 006E 0064 0065 006E 0063 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

527185827871807071806991

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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