enlight
verbEtymology From en- + light.
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Archaic To illuminate.
- Which from the first has shone on ages past, Enlights the present, and shall warm the last.1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC:
- Let rays of truth enlight his sleeping brain.1783, William Blake, An Imitation of Spencer:
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- Others, whether they be rich or poor, are the guides and lights of the nation, raising its tone, enlighting its difficulties, and improving its ideals.1910 July 23, Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell, “The Future of the Human Race”, in Popular Science Monthly:
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