Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To light anew; rekindle.
- To illuminate again.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To light anew; to rekindle.
- transitive verb To illuminate again.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
light orilluminate anew; torekindle .
Etymologies
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See relume and illumine.
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Examples
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The lights, when they came, would have failed to relumine an expectation in my bosom, had not their beams disclosed the forms of various books, which one and another had brought in for the evening's amusement.
The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies An American Lady
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The melancholy history of man too fully proves, that conjugal affection, once extinguished, is rarely, if ever, blown into a second flame, for “where is that Promethean heat that can its light relumine?”
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Hesperides, pretending that her object is by magical incantations again to relumine the passion of love in the breast of Aeneas.
Lives of the Necromancers William Godwin 1796
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