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Enlightening   /ɛnlˈaɪtənɪŋ/  /ɛnlˈaɪtnɪŋ/   Listen
adjective
enlightening  adj.  
1.
Enlightening so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement.
Synonyms: edifying.
2.
Tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance; as, an enlightening glimpse of government in action.





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"Enlightening" Quotes from Famous Books



... none so plenty—withal of scant circulation. Besides, reading them was work—also tedious and tasteless. So the great and the would-be great, rode up and down, and roundabout, mixing with the sovereigns, and enlightening the world. Each party felt honor bound to gather the sovereigns so they might listen in comfort. Besides—they wanted amusement—a real big barbecue was a sort of social exchange, drawing together half of three counties, and letting you hear ...
— Dishes & Beverages of the Old South • Martha McCulloch Williams
... have entirely succeeded to exaction and tyranny from a foreign force—(which it now holds forth so auspicious a promise of accomplishing)—and when literature shall revert within its former fruitful channels of enlightening the ignorant, gratifying the learned, and illustrating what is obscure among the treasures of former times—then I think Munich will be a proud and a flourishing city indeed.[46] But more of this subject ...
— A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three • Thomas Frognall Dibdin
... the gifted Hector MacQuarrie, whom I fear I have guiltily been quoting in almost every sentence of this chapter, has said that Maugham writes "transcripts, not of life as a tolerable whole, but of phases which suit his arbitrary treatment." It is an enlightening comment. ...
— When Winter Comes to Main Street • Grant Martin Overton
... believe in the universality of divine goodness, the publisher feels confident the following work will be received and read with no small satisfaction. And a hope is entertained that it may be the means of enlightening some, who though they possess the spirit of universal love and benevolence, have not the felicity of believing in the divine goodness to the extent of ...
— A Series of Letters In Defence of Divine Revelation • Hosea Ballou
... "That's very enlightening, I'm sure," returned the other. "But time is short, and I must see the person who is in charge, and that ...
— Boy Scouts in the North Sea - The Mystery of a Sub • G. Harvey Ralphson


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