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Definition
having or receiving important knowledge or understanding — (sometimes a spiritual belief)
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free of false beliefs based on superstition or prejudice
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free of false beliefs based on superstition or prejudice
- Levin did not for the first moment understand what it was confused her, but she immediately enlightened him.Part Five (47% in)
- ...with its vases on pedestals, and its open fireplaces, its carved doors and gloomy reception rooms, hung with pictures—this palazzo did much, by its very appearance after they had moved into it, to confirm in Vronsky the agreeable illusion that he was not so much a Russian country gentleman, a retired army officer, as an enlightened amateur and patron of the arts, himself a modest artist who had renounced the world, his connections, and his ambition for the sake of the woman he loved.Part Five (26% in)
- This new feeling has not changed me, has not made me happy and enlightened all of a sudden, as I had dreamed, just like the feeling for my child.Part Eight (99% in)
There are no more uses of "enlightened" in Anna Karenina.
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