brightening
noun C2- An instance of becoming brighter.
Plural brightenings
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The globe of the lamp appeared of a reddish hue, and the flame, brightening before it expired, threw out the last flickerings which in an inanimate object have been so often compared with the convulsions of a human creature in its final agonies.
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