Enlightenment is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ENLIGHTENMENT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act or means of enlightening
• the action of enlightening or the state of being enlightened
• the action or state of attaining or having attained spiritual knowledge or insight, in particular (in Buddhism) that awareness which frees a person from the cycle of rebirth
• a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. It was heavily influenced by 17th-century philosophers such as Descartes, Locke, and Newton, and its prominent figures included Kant, Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Adam Smith.
• Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.
• education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge
• (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness
• a movement in Europe from about 1650 until 1800 that advocated the use of reason and individualism instead of tradition and established doctrine
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act or means of enlightening; the state of being enlightened

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How to use ENLIGHTENMENT in a sentence

• Sir, you may have to contribute your quota to our enlightenment.
• I launched him by sending him to a meeting of the Enlightenment Board.
• In fact, representative churchmen of the various sects still took the lead in advocating the enlightenment of the colored people.
• There developed a class of self-educating Negroes who were able to provide for their own enlightenment.
• Masters had more than one reason for favoring the enlightenment of the slaves.
• They tell us they are opening windows of enlightenment and doors of progress.
• It was all so plausible and there was the bead of gold, too, that I turned to Craig for enlightenment.
• There were several left among us who had shared the enlightenment of the women, but these were not persons of importance who could put themselves at the head of affairs.
• The result of this unfortunate enlightenment was such as, from her impulsive character, might justly have been anticipated.
• But an hour or two afterwards I had fuller enlightenment as to my plight.
• I thought with the Admiral that they must have tradition or rumor, of folk higher upon the mount of enlightenment than themselves.
• Wherever the Bible goes civilization and enlightenment follow.
• I want, however, further enlightenment on the subject.
• This religion is natural enlightenment, the revelation of a truth contained in the world and in man, the discovery of the one God from the open book of creation.
• His appearance in this world of mixture and confusion is his deed, and the enlightenment of the spirit about itself is the result which springs out of that deed.
• My hope is that those two blessed souls may shine like unto two heavenly stars from the horizon of Japan and may be the cause of its enlightenment.
• So long as one marriage in twelve ends in divorce, the ethics of the female need enlightenment.
• She even caught at it, with an inward gasp of enlightenment.
• Possibly the sight of those skeleton fists helped her to enlightenment.
• Nick remained on his feet, looking down at her, waiting grimly for enlightenment.
• Boniface at their head, carrying Christianity and enlightenment to the pagan German tribes on the Continent.
• I just feel that having the attitude that everything exists to serve human pleasures and appetites stunts any enlightenment one might hope to get on this planet.
• The tendency toward enlightenment which Islam represents, and the limits of that enlightenment, may be illustrated by the precept about unclean animals.
• And Sir Kersley had been far too considerate to probe for further enlightenment.
• A New England pastor was a flame that burned for the enlightenment of the nations.
• In those days of dim enlightenment, when the masses were little elevated above the animal, the popular mind was more easily impressed by material than intellectual grandeur.
• On the other hand, his account of his fruitless self-mortification shows that the exercise even in its extreme forms is not sufficient to secure enlightenment.
• The object of the doctrine is to make men get an excellent understanding, practise good discipline and attain to the great fruit of Enlightenment or Buddha-hood.
• With evident interest, he applied to us to tell him where he had wandered to, and what people he had seen! So our last attempts at enlightenment ended.

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