Sample sentences for ENLIGHTEN

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Definition

provide better understanding or make clear — often in a spiritual sense

The book enlightens and entertains.
I felt strongly tempted, at times, to enlighten my mother and sister on the real character and circumstances of the persecuted tenant of Wildfell Hall,
Anne Bronte -- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
A longing to enlighten her was strong in him; and there were moments when he imagined that all she asked was to be enlightened.
Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
Whom did the LORD consult to enlighten him, and who taught him the right way? Who was it that taught him knowledge or showed him the path of understanding?
Isaiah 40:14 (NIV)
This book enlightens and educates.
Dave Pelzer -- A Child Called It

enlightens = provides better understanding or makes clear

enlightening = providing a better understanding

How strange and enlightening and terrible had been her experience!
Zane Grey -- The Border Legion
But on this point enlighten me: are you removing treasure here amassed for safety abroad, until the war is past?
Homer -- The Iliad
So don't count on me to enlighten you.
Samuel Beckett -- Waiting for Godot
So then enlighten me, Mama.
John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
Then let us adjourn to the courtyard, where I will proceed to enlighten you.
Roger Zelazny -- Lord of Light
By and by that last enlightening moment came, and Madeline Hammond faced not only the love in her heart, but the thought of the man she loved.
Zane Grey -- The Light of Western Stars
Enlightening, I'd say, and they used the made-up town of Niceville, Mississippi, but who knows?"
Kathryn Stockett -- The Help
Much was being done to enlighten these poor people.
Harriet Jacobs -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
We've said the enlightening word.
Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) -- Faust
'Now, Ernest,' said I, 'enlighten me on the subject of this adventure!
Johann Wyss -- The Swiss Family Robinson
This has been an enlightening talk, but I'm afraid you have to go now.
Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
Of this Brown was not aware, and Kassim, who came up the knoll an hour before sunset, took good care not to enlighten him.
Joseph Conrad -- Lord Jim
Oh, sire! clemency is the only light which can enlighten the interior of so great a soul.
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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