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- noun Plural form of
enlightener .
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Examples
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Aboard each cruise are "enlighteners" -- naturalists, historians and other experts -- who also lead shore excursions.
Anne Campbell: Small Ship Cruises: No Ties, No Bingo Anne Campbell 2011
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Aboard each cruise are "enlighteners" -- naturalists, historians and other experts -- who also lead shore excursions.
Anne Campbell: Small Ship Cruises: No Ties, No Bingo Anne Campbell 2011
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Aboard each cruise are "enlighteners" -- naturalists, historians and other experts -- who also lead shore excursions.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Anne Campbell 2011
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The flat earthers Gordon Brown so disparragingly compared to 'anthropogenically driven climate change sceptics' were the forces of Dogmatism, the enlighteners were the secptics and scientists frred of dogma.
Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2009
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Maskilim, or “enlighteners,” men who wished to reform Eastern European Jewish life, wrote tkhines to reach the “benighted” traditional women with their reform program.
Tkhines. 2009
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Perhaps hoping to bring in even more customers, the agent decided to stimulate some conflict among the enlighteners to increase the entertainment values of the event.
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I got the connection between dolphins and llamas in their roles on Earth as spiritual comrades and enlighteners.
When Animals Speak Penelope Smith 2009
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The local superintendent, who remained through the week while the other enlighteners went to other Chautauquas for their daily performances.
Main Street 2004
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And he appointed the shamans as leaders and enlighteners of the people.
Conan Howard, Robert E. & De Camp, L. Sprague & Carter, Lin 1966
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From the enlighteners of public opinion a howl of wrath came forth, and Johnston, who had just been Alexander, Hannibal, Cæsar, Napoleon, was now a miserable dastard and traitor, unfit to command a corporal's guard.
Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War Richard Taylor
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