Illumination is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ILLUMINATION in dictionary:

VERB:
• That which is illuminated, as a house; also, an ornamented book or manuscript.
• That which illuminates or gives light; brightness; splendor; especially, intellectual light or knowledge.
• The special communication of knowledge to the mind by God; inspiration.
NOUN:
• spiritual or intellectual enlightenment
• lights used in decorating a building or other structure.
• an illuminated design in a manuscript.
• spiritual or intellectual enlightenment.
• lighting or light
• the art of illuminating a manuscript.
• clarification
• The act of illuminating, or supplying with light; the state of being illuminated.
• Festive decoration of houses or buildings with lights.
• Adornment of books and manuscripts with colored illustrations. See Illuminate, v. t., 3.
• a condition of spiritual awareness; divine illumination
• the degree of visibility of your environment
• an interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding
• the luminous flux incident on a unit area
• painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the action of illuminating or state of being illuminated; as spiritual or intellectual enlightenment a lighting up; decorative lighting or lighting effects; decoration by the art of illuminating

Words related to ILLUMINATION

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How to use ILLUMINATION in a sentence

• The illumination was, however, modified greatly by hangings of lace covering all the windows, supplemented by heavy draperies drawn back to either side.
• A white light of illumination had suddenly flashed into her mind concerning the nature of the boon which Jervis Ferrars had begged at the hands of Mary, and been denied.
• He then reduced the illumination on the table, and extinguished such of the lamps as had not gone out of themselves.
• Suppose we wish to measure the strength of the electric light bulbs in our homes, in order to see whether we are getting the specified illumination.
• We seldom consider what life would be without our wonderful methods of illumination which turn night into day, and prolong the hours of work and pleasure.
• A subdued light, friendly to her beauty, fell like a reflection rather than a direct illumination.
• Special gifts of spiritual knowledge and illumination were then given to meet special requirements.
• Brushfield, who brought to bear on local documents the illumination of sound and wide learning.
• I waved it, touched the ship with its faint glowing circle of illumination.
• Somewhere aloft, above the film of cloud, the silvery moon was shining, and that was illumination more than enough for men of their years on the trail.
• The color is pink, under proper illumination, if no food is present.
• This does not mean that the identical rays of light have reappeared but the virtues of illumination.
• This is the illumination of the faces of those who are near.
• At Westminster the traditions of illumination seem to have followed the methods of the earlier Winchester school.
• This also is a characteristic of German and early Netherlandish illumination.
• By the time of Queen Elizabeth English illumination was a thing of the past.
• Yet there is a goodly list of both Spanish and Portuguese artists who practised the art of illumination.
• This light falling on Jesus is mistaken by them in the surprise of the moment for a supernatural illumination.
• The big searchlight gave a fine illumination, for the ice above and below reflected back the beams, and what would otherwise have been a sea of darkness was made one of daylight.
• Nevertheless, there was sufficient illumination to show that Peter had achieved one, at least, of his ambitions.
• The central hooded lamps showed like poor candles, making a series of rings of feeble illumination on the vast invisible floor of the road.
• All the candles in the hall and the entry were then lighted up, and produced quite a gorgeous illumination of the four windows fronting on the main street.
• The second similitude is the illumination of the one and the other.
• As the sun rises, the delicacy of the first tints vanishes in an immense illumination, and everything remains bathed in white light until toward evening.
• The disciples of this philosopher practised the virtues taught them by the lofty doctrines of mystical illumination.
• This man said that the oil was being subjected to experiments for use in illumination.
• The material of such illumination was oil derived either from animals or from vegetable products, such as the olive.

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