All 3 Uses of
enlightened
in
The Mill on the Floss
- In the enlightened child of civilization the abandonment characteristic of grief is checked and varied in the subtlest manner, so as to present an interesting problem to the analytic mind.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- The casuists have become a byword of reproach; but their perverted spirit of minute discrimination was the shadow of a truth to which eyes and hearts are too often fatally sealed,—the truth, that moral judgments must remain false and hollow, unless they are checked and enlightened by a perpetual reference to the special circumstances that mark the individual lot.†
Chpt 7.2
- Dr. Kenn, at first enlightened only by a few hints as to the new turn which gossip and slander had taken in relation to Maggie, had recently been made more fully aware of it by an earnest remonstrance from one of his male parishioners against the indiscretion of persisting in the attempt to overcome the prevalent feeling in the parish by a course of resistance.†
Chpt 7.5
Definition:
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(enlightened) having or receiving important knowledge or understanding -- (sometimes a spiritual belief)
or:
free of false beliefs based on superstition or prejudice