Both Uses of
effulgent
in
The House of Mirth
- But brilliant young ladies, a little blinded by their own effulgence, are apt to forget that the modest satellite drowned in their light is still performing its own revolutions and generating heat at its own rate.†
Chpt 1.10 *
- Freddy, barely out of college, had risen above the horizon since Lily's eclipse, and she now saw with surprise what an effulgence he shed on the outer twilight of Mrs. Hatch's existence.†
Chpt 2.9
Definition:
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(effulgent) radiating or as if radiating light