Enlightenment
[ɪn'laɪt(ə)nm(ə)nt;en-] or [ɪn'laɪtnmənt]
Definition
(noun.) education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge.
(noun.) a movement in Europe from about 1650 until 1800 that advocated the use of reason and individualism instead of tradition and established doctrine; 'the Enlightenment brought about many humanitarian reforms'.
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Definition
(n.) Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Instruction, illumination.
Edited by Laurence
Examples
- But the old teachers are all dead, or gone elsewhere; and no enlightenment is to be hoped for from that quarter. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- However doubtful she might feel her situation to be, she would rather persist in darkness than owe her enlightenment to Selden. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- However, Time and the progress of modern enlightenment put things right; and the misalliance passed muster very well. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Why not take the persons who have gone along with me, so far, up into those regions of superior enlightenment in which I sit myself? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Men move more swiftly and surely to the realization of their ends, but their ends too largely remain what they were prior to scientific enlightenment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- No enlightenment,' resumed Eugene, after certain minutes of silence. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The latter is a direct guide to action; the former operates indirectly through the enlightenment it supplies as to ends and means. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Neither does the improvement of the human race consist merely in the increase of the bones and flesh, but in the growth and enlightenment of the mind. Plato. The Republic.
- You'll be one-and-twenty before you know where you are, and then perhaps you'll get some further enlightenment. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The enlightenment has been painfully forced upon me, and the discovery is not mine. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
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