enlightenment

[en·light·en·ment]

A movement in Europe from about 1650 until 1800 that advocated the use of reason and individualism instead of tradition and established doctrine

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Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.

Noun
education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge

Noun
a movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions

Noun
(Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness


n.
Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.


Enlightenment

En*light"en*ment , n. Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.

Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.

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Usage Examples

Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

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Other Usage Examples

History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.

From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history, and Europe has helped write ours.

I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.

Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

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