"glitterance" meaning in English

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          "text": "And now had Thalaba\nPerformed his last ablutions, and he stood\nAnd gazed upon the little boat […]\nTill from the glitterance of the sunny main\nHe turned his aching eyes,\nAnd then upon the beach he laid him down\nAnd watched the rising tide.",
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          "ref": "1814, Dante Alighieri, trans. Henry Francis Cary, The Divine Comedy, canto 21",
          "text": "As the rooks, at dawn of day,\nBestirring them to dry their feathers chill,\nSome speed their way a-field; and homeward some,\nReturning, cross their flight; while some abide,\nAnd wheel around their airy lodge: so seem’d\nThat glitterance, wafted on alternate wing,\nAs upon certain stair it came, and clash’d\nIts shining."
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          "text": "Magnificent as the archangel’s glance\nTurning a farewell look on primal earth\nOf light ineffable, ere he stretched forth\nHis crimson pinions o’er the wide expanse\nOf young creation, sleeping in the trance\nThat love had pour’d around its innocent birth,\nWhen seraphs mingled in its infant mirth,\nSlow sinks the Autumn sunset’s glitterance!\nO the brave architecture of the skies! […]\nVery well indeed, Harry, for an impromptu; glitterance is an ill phrase, a vile phrase—Peter, for the sake of the metre; however——",
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        "A glittering, a sparkling with light."
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        "(poetic) A glittering, a sparkling with light."
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