Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Belief in or proclamation of a special personal enlightenment.
- noun The ideas and principles of various groups of Illuminati.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The principles or claims of illuminati, or of a sect or the order of Illuminati. Also
illuminatism .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The principles of the Illuminati.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
principles of theIlluminati .
Etymologies
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Examples
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*Freemasons, essentially based of gnostic illuminism.
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*Freemasons, essentially based of gnostic illuminism.
The Last Acceptable Prejudice de Brantigny........................ 2008
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From this a new wave of illuminism and laicism is derived, by which only what is experiential and calculable would be rationally valid, while on the level of praxis, individual freedom is held as a fundamental value to which all others must be subject.
auntie joanna writes Joanna Bogle 2007
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Awakening but also on his wide reading in the litera - ture of illuminism, especially Scottish and Dutch.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas HERBERT W. SCHNEIDER 1968
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The basic charge against all such illuminism had been formulated by Bishop Bossuet in his conflict with Archbishop Fénelon: “Pure love is opposed to the essence of love which always desires the enjoyment of its object, and also to the nature of man who neces - sarily desires happiness.”
Dictionary of the History of Ideas HERBERT W. SCHNEIDER 1968
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Neither internal commotions nor seemingly mighty political revolutions, such as the illuminism of the French Encyclopedists and the German neo-classicists, the temporary supremacy of rationalism, and the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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Weishaupt, professor of canon law in the University of Ingolstadt, and by him perfected as a system of light or illuminism.
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We therefore see that some find in Ignatius's method illuminism, hallucination, and phantasmagoria; others see in it nothing dazzling, but rather dulness and insipidity.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Certain critics have reproached the "Exercises" with favouring private inspiration, in the Protestant sense, and with opening a path to illuminism.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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He knew that a shallow illuminism had no correspondence with the deepest longings of the human heart.
The Theology of Schleiermacher: A Condensed Presentation of His Chief Work, "The Christian Faith" 1862-1929 1911
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