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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
illumine .
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Examples
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The sunlight illumines her face; she looks beatific beneath the trees.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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In Act One, I bare my fangs, lightning illumines the library, and the sea crashes against the rocks.
What Matters Is Round John Olson 2011
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The act of the actor in action: the luminous spotlight illumines.
Anatomy of a Breakdown DJ Young 2011
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Instead of grasping in her hand thunderbolts of terror and of death, she holds aloft the light which illumines the way to man's enfranchisement.
Megan Smolenyak: To Lady Liberty on Her 125th Birthday Megan Smolenyak 2011
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The sunlight illumines her face; she looks beatific beneath the trees.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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* Illumine the eyes of my heart, * you who once gave birth to the unfading Light * Who illumines the ends of the earth * through the fiery sign of His judgment.
"Lent is the sacramental expression of the brief life we live here..." 2009
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It connotes the Eucharistic life of the sacrament, bread and wine, the body and blood of Christ, which illumines and changes those who partake in faith, so that they can become righteous through faith and in cooperation with Jesus Christ overcome even death itself.
Eric Simpson: Those Who Hunger And Thirst For Righteousness Will Be Filled Eric Simpson 2011
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It connotes the Eucharistic life of the sacrament, bread and wine, the body and blood of Christ, which illumines and changes those who partake in faith, so that they can become righteous through faith and in cooperation with Jesus Christ overcome even death itself.
Eric Simpson: Those Who Hunger And Thirst For Righteousness Will Be Filled Eric Simpson 2011
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Clearly Balaam is missing something (the explanation from the first reply is absolute), and that is what the episode of the talking donkey illumines.
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Instead of grasping in her hand thunderbolts of terror and of death, she holds aloft the light which illumines the way to man's enfranchisement.
Megan Smolenyak: To Lady Liberty on Her 125th Birthday Megan Smolenyak 2011
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