ENLIGHTENMENT in a Sentence
Learn ENLIGHTENMENT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
65 example sentences for ENLIGHTENMENT, such as:
1. The lad asked for no further enlightenment.
2. Yet enlightenment has reached us right enough.
3. Nor were his colleagues a wit inferior to him in enlightenment.
4. I hope the results of my research will enlighten my colleagues.
5. The purpose of these books was to enlighten members of tribal cultures.
2. Yet enlightenment has reached us right enough.
3. Nor were his colleagues a wit inferior to him in enlightenment.
4. I hope the results of my research will enlighten my colleagues.
5. The purpose of these books was to enlighten members of tribal cultures.
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Meanings and Examples of ENLIGHTENMENT
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enlightenment
n. (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness
n. a movement in Europe from about 1650 until 1800 that advocated the use of reason and individualism instead of tradition and established doctrine
Classic Sentence: (56 in 4 pages)
1 Nor were his colleagues a wit inferior to him in enlightenment.
2 "The cause is lack of enlightenment," said Chichikov.
3 Yet enlightenment has reached us right enough.
4 You will perhaps also see in your further initiation a like method of enlightenment.
5 Each historian, according to his view of what constitutes a nation's progress, looks for these conditions in the greatness, wealth, freedom, or enlightenment of citizens of France or some other country.
6 The most usual generalizations adopted by almost all the historians are: freedom, equality, enlightenment, progress, civilization, and culture.
7 In certain cases, education and enlightenment can serve to eke out evil.
8 The lad asked for no further enlightenment.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
9 It is already much to have solaced it; its enlightenment is yet another point.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
10 You will have scribblers, chatterers, lawyers, orators, tribunes, discussions, progress, enlightenment, the rights of man, the liberty of the press, and this is the way that your children will be brought home to you.
11 There, no more than elsewhere, did the information obtained lead to any enlightenment.
12 An inward shudder of hideous enlightenment flashed through him; an idea which made him quiver traversed his mind.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN
13 You'll be one-and-twenty before you know where you are, and then perhaps you'll get some further enlightenment.
14 If you love your child as a good father, you will not desire only wealth, luxury, honor for your infant; you will be anxious for his salvation, his spiritual enlightenment with the light of truth.
15 People who can do nothing else ought to rear people while the rest work for their happiness and enlightenment.
Example Sentence:
1 If all we needed was more knowledge, then the search for enlightenment might be the answer.
2 We need more men of culture and enlightenment; we needn't any philistine among us.
3 The special terminology developed by some authorities in the field has done more to confuse the layman than to enlighten him.
4 The purpose of these books was to enlighten members of tribal cultures.
5 I hope the results of my research will enlighten my colleagues.
6 Although his purpose was to edify and not to entertain his audience, many of his listeners were amused rather than enlightened.
7 The Head Pelican reminds us that it's still illegal to sell such products in enlightened Alabama.
8 Feminists should be delighted by their enlightened commitment to sexual equality, their assumption that what's sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose, too.
9 It was the enlightened afrancesados who were to confuse political issues by their peculiar relation to liberalism.