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Can you enlighten me--I don't understand this proposal
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The book enlightens and entertains.
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This book enlightens and educates. (source)enlightens = provides better understanding or makes clear
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He was very enlightening sometimes. (source)enlightening = providing a better understanding
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Then let us adjourn to the courtyard, where I will proceed to enlighten you. (source)enlighten = provide better understanding for
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Baba would enlighten me with his politics during those walks with long-winded dissertations.† (source)enlighten = provide better understanding or make clear
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"There are superior and inferior races in the world," said the Japanese politician Nakajima Chikuhei in 1940, "and it is the sacred duty of the leading race to lead and enlighten the inferior ones."† (source)enlighten = provide better understanding or make clear
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You must use this existential emptiness to fill yourself" His words were very enlightening to me.† (source)enlightening = providing a better understanding
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Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison, a more illustrious abode; every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.† (source)enlightens = provides better understanding or makes clear
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But most especially, my most sincere gratitude goes to our true benefactor, El Jefe Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, Champion of Education, Light of the Antilles, First Teacher, Enlightener of His People.† (source)
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Well I discern, that by that truth alone Enlighten'd, beyond which no truth may roam, Our mind can satisfy her thirst to know: Therein she resteth, e'en as in his lair The wild beast, soon as she hath reach'd that bound, And she hath power to reach it; else desire Were given to no end.† (source)Enlighten'd = provided better understanding or made clear
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The local superintendent, who remained through the week while the other enlighteners went to other Chautauquas for their daily performances.† (source)
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Thus proceeding still, The second light: and she, whose gentle love My soaring pennons in that lofty flight Escorted, thus preventing me, rejoin'd: Among her sons, not one more full of hope, Hath the church militant: so 't is of him Recorded in the sun, whose liberal orb Enlighteneth all our tribe: and ere his term Of warfare, hence permitted he is come, From Egypt to Jerusalem, to see.† (source)Enlighteneth = provides better understanding or makes clearstandard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She enlighteneth" in older English, today we say "She enlightens."
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On and on he goes with his declarations, as if he is in a position to enlighten anyone on matters of verse.† (source)enlighten = provide better understanding or make clear
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Enlightening, I'd say, and they used the made-up town of Niceville, Mississippi, but who knows?† (source)Enlightening = providing a better understanding
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He was desirous of an explosion, because in that case the mine throws forth fire, and fire enlightens.† (source)enlightens = provides better understanding or makes clear
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