Sample Sentences for
Enlightenment
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(editor-reviewed)

enlightenment as in:  provided for your enlightenment

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    I would need more than wind chimes and enlightenment.  (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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    There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man—with human flesh.  (source)
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    What up until this moment has felt like a random, disconnected series of unhappy events she now views as necessary steps in a journey toward ...enlightenment is perhaps too strong a word, but there are others, less lofty, like self-acceptance and perspective.  (source)
    enlightenment = increased understanding
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    "Oh," said the man, showing plainly the enlightenment which had come to him.  (source)
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    Maybe my assignment was to bring you enlightenment, Taylor.  (source)
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    The enlightenment has been painfully forced upon me, and the discovery is not mine.  (source)
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    We have seen in our own time how a young democracy needs popular enlightenment.  (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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    They came to his clinics longing for enlightenment and comfort.  (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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    Chet Douglass, leaning against the side of the Prize Table, continued to blow musical figures for his own enlightenment.  (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 when thinkers used reason and science to challenge old ideas and improve society
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    Folks, we're at the dawn of the Second Enlightenment.  (source)
    Enlightenment = a primarily 18th century movement that further advanced the use of reason in Western civilization
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    Alberto will soon be telling you about the French Enlightenment.  (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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    Thus Greece gave way to Rome, and the Russian Enlightenment has become the Russian Revolution.  (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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    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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    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)
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    For it was, of course, quite ridiculous to try to tie the concept of revolution exclusively to progress and a victoriously onrushing Enlightenment.  (source)
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    He thought of Peter's faith that an age of enlightenment was imminent.  (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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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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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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