illumine

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  1. transitive verb To give light to; illuminate.

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  • Knowing them even approximately, we often find texts which illumine them in the writings of men who went below the surface of things, Emerson, or Carlyle, or Schopenhauer. —  Beethoven A Character Study
  • And already his characteristic humour was beginning to illumine every topic with lambent flashes. —  Oscar Wilde
  • To promote these objects, is, undoubtedly, the real interest of the Convention; but a moralist, who observes through another medium, may compare with regret and indignation the instructors with the people they are to illumine, and the advantages of philosophy over ignorance. —  A Residence in France During the Years 1792 1793 1794 and 1795
  • But Lee was terminating the first stage of the contest by one of those great campaigns which project events and personages in bold relief from the broad canvas, and illumine the pages of history. —  A Life of Gen Robert E Lee
  • May light everlasting illumine my soul! —  Letters
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English illuminen, from Old French illuminer, from Latin illūmināre, to illuminate; see illuminate.

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  1. = Dutch illumineren = German illuminiren = Danish illuminere = Swedish illuminera, from French illuminer = Provencal enlumenar, illuminar, illumenar, ellumenar = Spanish iluminar = Portuguese illuminar = Italian illuminare, from Latin illuminare, inluminare, light up: see illuminate. Cf. illume.
 

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