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suffusion

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The act or process of suffusing, or state of being suffused; an overspreading.

That with which a thing is suffused.

A blending of one color into another; the spreading of one color over another, as on the feathers of birds.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Joy is the sweet voice, Joy the luminous cloud - We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colours a suffusion from that light. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace. Virginia Woolf

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