Plural of glimmering; weak or faint lights, or metaphorically, dim understandings or vague ideas.
Glimmering (noun form) uses the gerund form of glimmer plus -s for plural. In older literature, 'glimmerings of truth' meant barely perceptible insights.
Shakespeare and Romantic poets loved this word because it perfectly captured the idea of incomplete understanding—a 'glimmering of hope' is more poetic than 'a slight hope' because it implies something struggling to shine through darkness.
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