The word for today is…
refulgence (noun) – Shining radiantly; resplendent.
Source : The Free Dictionary
Etymology : “The full bow of the crescent moon peeps above the plain and shoots its gleaming arrows far and wide, filling the earth with a faint refulgence, as the glow of a good man’s deeds shines for a while upon his little world after his sun has set, lighting the fainthearted travellers who follow on towards a fuller dawn.” So British author Sir Henry Rider Haggard described the light of the moon in King Solomon’s Mines, published in 1885. Haggard’s example reflects both the modern meaning and the history of refulgence. That word derives from Latin refulg?re, which means “to shine brightly” and which is itself a descendant of the verb fulg?re, meaning “to shine.” Fulg?re also underlies effulgence, a shining synonym of refulgence.
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