Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who illuminates; one who or that which communicates light to the eye or clear views to the mind.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who enlightens or illuminates; one who, or that which, communicates light to the eye, or clear views to the mind.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who, or that which,
enlightens .
Etymologies
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Examples
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That article was a real enlightener, as I used to admire Snipes.
Wesley Snipes Ponders the Possibility of a Fourth Blade Movie « FirstShowing.net 2010
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Ever since Sunoya was born under an omen of duality either she will be a great enlightener or an even greater darkness bringer.
Zadayi Red-Caleb Fox « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2009
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Since the show's mission is for Lou to be the explainer and enlightener, he should be sure to cite this during your segment tonite.
CNN president emails Dobbs pronouncing birther story "dead," but Lou won't let it go 2009
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"Since the show's mission is for Lou to be the explainer and enlightener, he should be sure to cite this during your segment tonite" [sic].
Eric E. Burns: Klein Puts CNN's "Most Trusted" Brand at Risk 2009
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In the last couple of decades the "investigative reporter" has become the great enlightener of our generation.
At what cost, freedom? shipping troll 2008
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In the last couple of decades the "investigative reporter" has become the great enlightener of our generation.
Archive 2008-11-01 shipping troll 2008
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I know of one educationist (enlightener), who for his love for dark-skinned Africans, gave up prestige and privilege, and came to live and work in Nigeria.
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But it began and remained more fundamen¬tally an antimodernist recovery and rearticulation of Western and English con¬stitutionalism on the classical and medi¬eval patterns identified with the seventeenth century of Sir Edward Coke, a principal figure of the Elizabethan Renaissance, and of John Locke, himself a principal enlightener…
Archive 2008-05-01 papabear 2008
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But it began and remained more fundamen¬tally an antimodernist recovery and rearticulation of Western and English con¬stitutionalism on the classical and medi¬eval patterns identified with the seventeenth century of Sir Edward Coke, a principal figure of the Elizabethan Renaissance, and of John Locke, himself a principal enlightener…
Archive 2008-05-04 papabear 2008
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Then Luka Lukich, as the enlightener of youth, should go first.
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