"icelight" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: ice + light Etymology templates: {{compound|en|ice|light}} ice + light Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} icelight (uncountable)
  1. (poetic, rare) The light reflected off a surface of ice. Tags: poetic, rare, uncountable
    Sense id: en-icelight-en-noun-tckfGoHR

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          "ref": "1846, Julius Charles Hare, The mission of the Comforter, and other sermons, page 195",
          "text": "Moreover, as the light which comes down from heaven, is not a cold barren snowlight or icelight, merely opening a field for the eye to wander in, but is full of penetrating, cheering, lifegiving warmth, thus the light which comes from Christ does not merely enlighten our mental eye, but, so far as it does indeed come from Him, pervades our whole nature, and manifests itself in the light of a holy life, no less than in moral and spiritual intuitions.",
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