Splendor vs Brilliancy - What's the difference?
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Great light, luster or brilliance.
* Rudyard Kipling The Just So Stories; How the Rhinoceros got its skin:
Magnificent appearance, display or grandeur.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 Great fame or glory.
a shining quality; brilliance.
An act of being brilliant.
(label) A spectacular and beautiful game of chess, generally featuring sacrificial attacks and unexpected moves.
As nouns the difference between splendor and brilliancy
is that splendor is great light, luster or brilliance while brilliancy is a shining quality; brilliance.splendor
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Alternative forms
* splendour (British)Noun
(en-noun)- "Once upon a time on an uninhabited island on the shores of the Red Sea, there lived a Parsee from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental-splendour. "
citation, passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.}}