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Illuminating   /ɪlˈumənˌeɪtɪŋ/   Listen
Illuminating

adjective
1.
Tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance.  Synonyms: enlightening, informative.  "An illuminating lecture"  Antonym: unenlightening.


Illuminate

verb
(past & past part. illuminated; pres. part. illuminating)
1.
Make lighter or brighter.  Synonyms: illume, illumine, light, light up.
2.
Make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear.  Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, shed light on, sort out, straighten out.  "Clear up the question of who is at fault"
3.
Add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts).





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"Illuminating" Quotes from Famous Books



... squashes has ceased wandering, and charging itself at each station. The force of Dawson's intellect is such that he makes all this moral turbidity as clear as crystal while he remains in evidence. His bodily presence has a kind of illuminating power, and all the errors that we fancy we have found he traces to their original source, which is always in our suspicious and inexperienced minds. As he leaves the room he points out some proof of unexampled magnanimity on the part of the hotel; as, for instance, ...
— Penelope's English Experiences • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... bewitched as the amazingly simple cipher revealed itself in a flash after his hours of study. Granted he had struck the right solution, the message was illuminating enough. Professor Dusenberry was a dangerous crook, instead of the harmless old "crank" the passengers had taken him for, and his cipher message was ...
— The Ocean Wireless Boys And The Naval Code • John Henry Goldfrap, AKA Captain Wilbur Lawton
... gathered from a formula. When the observer has learnt what it is that his instrument is actually to do for him, he will know how to estimate its performance, and how to vary the application of its powers—whether illuminating or magnifying—according to the nature of the object to ...
— Half-hours with the Telescope - Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a - Means of Amusement and Instruction. • Richard A. Proctor
... An illuminating instance of the power of fiction over human faith is furnished by the case of Arthur Machen's The Bowmen, included here. This story it is which started the whole tissue of legendry concerning supernatural ...
— Famous Modern Ghost Stories • Various
... illuminating conversation the Princess and Joan could do nothing else but gaze from one man to the other in mute surprise, and Joan was grieved beyond measure that Felix should treat Alec's father with such scant ...
— A Son of the Immortals • Louis Tracy


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