All 3 Uses of
enlightened
in
Jane Eyre
- Here the gentlemen interposed with earnest petitions to be further enlightened on these two last-named points; but they got only blushes, ejaculations, tremors, and titters, in return for their importunity.†
p. 226.3 *
- When he had done, instead of feeling better, calmer, more enlightened by his discourse, I experienced an inexpressible sadness; for it seemed to me — I know not whether equally so to others — that the eloquence to which I had been listening had sprung from a depth where lay turbid dregs of disappointment — where moved troubling impulses of insatiate yearnings and disquieting aspirations.†
p. 405.4
- I rose from the thanksgiving — took a resolve — and lay down, unscared, enlightened — eager but for the daylight.†
p. 484.9
Definition:
having or receiving important knowledge or understanding -- (sometimes a spiritual belief)
or:
free of false beliefs based on superstition or prejudice
or:
free of false beliefs based on superstition or prejudice