[f. next: see -ANCE.] Luminousness.
1880. ‘Ouida,’ Moths, III. xi. 282. Her eyes have a serious sweet luminance.
1884. E. A. B. Hodgetts, trans. Remin. Gen. Skobeleff, 322. The bright luminance of our freedom shall shine forth to be seen by the whole world.
1893. Marie Corelli, Barabbas, iii. (1894), 15. The flickering luminance thus given only making the native darkness of the place more palpable.
