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Corposant

noun

An electrical discharge accompanied by ionization of surrounding atmosphere. Synonyms: corona, corona discharge, electric glow, Saint Elmo's fire, Saint Elmo's light, Saint Ulmo's fire, Saint Ulmo's light, St. Elmo's fire.

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... and he was cognizant of great enveloping currents of life. Wonder he had known, and bitterness he had known, but the immense forces that wind the stars as a clock is wound he had not known.... And with Claire-Anne they had burst about him like thunder. They had played around him as the corposant flickers around the mast-head of a ship.... Poor Claire-Anne! The miracle of her. She was like some flowering bush in an arctic waste.... Her wonderful scared eyes, her tortured self.... It was a very strange thing that her ...

— The Wind Bloweth • Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne

Words linked to "Corposant" : electric discharge, spark, discharge, arc, corona discharge, electric arc, electric glow