illumination
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The fire on the hearth had by that time sunk to a glowing bed of coals, and, save for the dim ruddy glow, the illumination was afforded by means of a single candle--just sufficient to make of the commodious library a place of ghostly shadows, and failing to relieve its farther reaches from utter gloom and darkness It's a bonny bit of glass," the old gentleman had next said.
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- noun The act of illuminating.
- noun The state of being illuminated.
- noun A source of light.
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- This had a great effect on the minds of the prisoners; as they conceived that this illumination was the consequence not entirely of the defeat of their fleet, but of some signal success obtained by the Arabs and — The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson
- At Trieste, says Miss Knight, âhe is followed by thousands when he goes out, and for the illumination which is to take place this evening, there are many — The Life of Nelson
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At night the illumination is a pretty and brilliant sight In the summer the journey from Lyons to Marseilles in one of the many flat-bottomed steamers would be very enjoyable, and a pleasant break to the pent-up, wearisome railroad The scenery much resembles the Rhine, with its high cliffs, richly wooded promontories, historic and baronial castles, and picturesque chateaux.
— Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta -
The fire on the hearth had by that time sunk to a glowing bed of coals, and, save for the dim ruddy glow, the illumination was afforded by means of a single candle--just sufficient to make of the commodious library a place of ghostly shadows, and failing to relieve its farther reaches from utter gloom and darkness It's a bonny bit of glass," the old gentleman had next said.
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At night the illumination is a pretty and brilliant sight.
— Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta
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- from Middle English illumynacyon = Dutch illuminatie = G. Danish Swedish illumination, from Old French illumination, French illumination = Spanish iluminacion = Portuguese illuminação = Italian illuminazione, from Late Latin illuminatio(n-), inluminatio(n-), a lightening up, from Latin illuminare, inluminare, light up: see illuminate.
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/ (ĭ-lo͞oˌmə-nāˈshən)/
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