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/ɛnlˈaɪtənɪŋ/ /ɛnlˈaɪtnɪŋ/ Listen

adjective

enlightening adj.

Enlightening so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement.

Synonyms: edifying.

Tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance; as, an enlightening glimpse of government in action.

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Etymology of 'Enlightening'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Enlightening" Quotes from Famous Books

... reason to be grateful for these acts of kindness, and they both felt and expressed their gratitude. Their object, however, in coming to the country was to serve God, not the Hudson's Bay Company; and they proceeded to discharge their duty in the manner their conscience approved, instructing and enlightening the natives with the zeal and perseverance for which their sect is so eminently distinguished. The good fruits were soon apparent; in some parts of the country successful attempts were made to collect the natives: they were taught to cultivate the soil, to husband their produce, so as to ...

— Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory - Volume II. (of 2) • John M'lean

... was not long in enlightening his faithful subjects as to his wishes in the matter. Georges d'Amboise, Archbishop of Narbonne, and lieutenant to his friend Louis of Orleans in the Governorship of Normandy, was clearly pointed out as the royal candidate, ...

— The Story of Rouen • Sir Theodore Andrea Cook

... has told me nothing; but I find her excited and ill, and I have reason to believe it is connected with her visit here yesterday. If it is anything relating to me, and which I have a right to know, you would do me a great favor by enlightening me ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 30, April, 1860 • Various

... Fitz Neal, of the third generation of that great administration family founded by Roger of Salisbury and restored to office by Henry II, the book gives us a view from within of the financial organization of the reign as enlightening as is Glanvill's treatise ...

— The History of England From the Norman Conquest - to the Death of John (1066-1216) • George Burton Adams

... An enlightening and comprehensive account of each of these may be found in Niecks's Programme Music already referred to. See also Chapter VII, pp. 141-155 in Vol. VI of the Oxford History for what is perhaps a rather biased point of view. There is an excellent ...

— Music: An Art and a Language • Walter Raymond Spalding

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