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Enlightenment
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enlightenment as in:  provided for your enlightenment

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    So, perhaps that is where one must eventually head, if one has any hopes of achieving enlightenment without the interference of meddlers.  (source)
    enlightenment = a state of increased understanding
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    Ever since marrying Francois, I had clung to the notion that my mother-in-law, in a moment of enlightenment, would cast aside her prejudices and join Francois and me in celebrating our union.  (source)
    enlightenment = increased understanding
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    But none of the research provided much enlightenment on my number one area of real interest: Teenage friendship.  (source)
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    A koan is like a riddle that's supposed to help you toward enlightenment in Zen Buddhism.  (source)
    enlightenment = an elevated spiritual state
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    "Oh," said the man, showing plainly the enlightenment which had come to him.  (source)
    the enlightenment = increased understanding
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    Some cheap do-it-yourself enlightenment handbook, Nirvana for halfwits.  (source)
    enlightenment = an elevated spiritual state that includes increased understanding
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    The enlightenment has been painfully forced upon me, and the discovery is not mine.  (source)
    The enlightenment = increased understanding
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    Maybe my assignment was to bring you enlightenment, Taylor.  (source)
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    The great mass of the people could never hope to attain the enlightenment the spice seed brought to her; they had not been trained and prepared for it.  (source)
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    The plane was over land again when a flash of enlightenment struck him.  (source)
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    Why had Gotama, at that time, in the hour of all hours, sat down under the bo-tree, where the enlightenment hit him?  (source)
    the enlightenment = an enhanced spiritual state
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    Everybody always says this painting is about reason and enlightenment, the dawn of scientific inquiry, all that, but to me it's creepy how polite and formal they are, milling around the slab like a buffet at a cocktail party.  (source)
    enlightenment = increased understanding
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    Hence they are full of the most valuable materials for the enlightenment of the working class.  (source)
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Enlightenment as in:  during the Enlightenment...

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There isn't a consensus on when the Age of Enlightenment began.
Age of Enlightenment = a primarily 18th century movement that further advanced the use of reason in Western civilization
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    ...various religious cultures with their respective rights can coexist, on condition (and to the degree) that they respect the criteria of the Enlightenment culture and subordinate themselves to it.  (source)
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    For two days I tried to wrestle meaning from the textbook's dense passages, but terms like "civic humanism" and "the Scottish Enlightenment" dotted the page like black holes, sucking all the other words into them.  (source)
    Enlightenment = 18th century movement that further advanced the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions
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    Having dedicated the first several years to a study of the French (covering their idioms and forms of address, the personalities of Napoleon, Richelieu, and Talleyrand, the essence of the Enlightenment, the genius of Impressionism, and their prevailing aptitude for je ne sail quoi), the Count and Osip spent the next few years studying the British...  (source)
    the Enlightenment = a primarily 18th century movement that further advanced the use of reason in Western civilization
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    The industrial revolution was just starting up, and this new world would threaten everything people had known during the Enlightenment; at the same time, the new science and the new faith in science—including anatomical research, of course—imperiled many religious and philosophical tenets of English society in the first decades of the nineteenth century.  (source)
    the Enlightenment = a primarily 18th century movement that further advanced the use of reason in Western civilization
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    Folks, we're at the dawn of the Second Enlightenment.  (source)
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    He thought of Peter's faith that an age of enlightenment was imminent.  (source)
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    He seems to me to have betrayed unconsciously, and so early, that timid despair which leads so many in our unhappy society, who dread cynicism and its corrupting influences, and mistakenly attribute all the mischief to European enlightenment, to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them.  (source)
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    The synagogue was attended mostly by men like my father— teachers from my yeshiva, and others who had come under the influence of the Jewish Enlightenment in Europe and whose distaste for Hasidism was intense and outspoken.  (source)
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    Meanwhile in Europe, the enlightenment was a reasonable time.  (source)
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    But this criticism of 'civilization' was already being voiced by French Enlightenment philosophers.  (source)
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    The nineteenth century, he concluded, would be to the study of Mind what the eighteenth had been to the study of Matter — an Age of Enlightenment.  (source)
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    Social contract—that's the Enlightenment, that's Rousseau.  (source)
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    Thus Greece gave way to Rome, and the Russian Enlightenment has become the Russian Revolution.  (source)
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rare meaning

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    They were in the Great Room of the Enlightenment.  (source)
    the Enlightenment = a name for a group of people in this novel
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    Her PartiRank was 1,921, another fine figure, and one she felt comfortable taking into the Enlightenment.  (source)
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    The Great Hall was in the Enlightenment, and when they entered the venue, a 3,500-seat cavern appointed in warm woods and brushed steel, it was loud with anticipation.  (source)
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    Sitting in the Enlightenment was astounding, as they were now doing, awaiting Dream Friday in the Great Hall.  (source)
    the Enlightenment = a name for a group of people in this novel
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    As Mae followed the reaction, she watched the clock, knowing she was only an hour away from her presentation, her first in the Enlightenment's Great Room.  (source)
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