reillumination love

Definitions

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  • noun The act or process of enlightening again.

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  • noun The act or process of reilluminating.

Etymologies

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re- +‎ illumination

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Examples

  • That she now saw — as she had not, I had satisfied myself, the previous time — was proved to me by the fact that she was disturbed neither by my reillumination nor by the haste I made to get into slippers and into a wrap.

    The Turn of the Screw 2003

  • That she now saw -- as she had not, I had satisfied myself, the previous time -- was proved to me by the fact that she was disturbed neither by my reillumination nor by the haste I made to get into slippers and into a wrap.

    The Turn of the Screw 1935

  • That she now saw -- as she had not, I had satisfied myself, the previous time -- was proved to me by the fact that she was disturbed neither by my reillumination nor by the haste I made to get into slippers and into a wrap.

    The Turn of the Screw 1898

  • Meanwhile reillumination as to the terrible and total change that her confession had wrought in his life, in his universe, returned to him, and he tried desperately to advance among the new conditions in which he stood.

    Tess of the d'Urbervilles 1891

  • Convinced; for there was no wavering in his eye, no trembling in the hand she had clasped; convinced but ready notwithstanding to repudiate her own convictions, so much of the mother-passion, if not the wife's, tugged at her heart, she remained immovable for a moment, waiting for the impossible, hoping against hope for a withdrawal of his words and the reillumination of hope.

    Dark Hollow Anna Katharine Green 1890

  • Meanwhile reillumination as to the terrible and total change that her confession had wrought in his life, in his universe, returned to him, and he tried desperately to advance among the new conditions in which he stood.

    Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1884

  • That she now saw -- as she had not, I had satisfied myself, the previous time -- was proved to me by the fact that she was disturbed neither by my reillumination nor by the haste I made to get into slippers and into a wrap.

    The Turn of the Screw Henry James 1879

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