The Only Use of
effulgent
in
A Separate Peace
- It was hard to remember when one summer day after another broke with a cool effulgence over us, and there was a breath of widening life in the morning air—something hard to describe—an oxygen intoxicant, a shining northern paganism, some odor, some feeling so hopelessly promising that I would fall back in my bed on guard against it.†
p. 55.5
Definition:
radiating brightly (as does the sun) or anything that is dazzling or brilliant