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Meanings of enlightenment in English

Catalan
il·lustració
Spanish
ilustración

Education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge.

il·lustració
Portuguese
nirvana
Catalan
nirvana
Spanish
nirvana

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

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nirvana
Portuguese
iluminismo

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

iluminismo
Russian
просветление
Portuguese
iluminação
Spanish
iluminación espiritual

Notion in spirituality of full comprehension of a situation.

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Usage of enlightenment in English
1
Principal among these, of course, is education and the rigours of enlightenment.
Forge of Darkness
2
Still, there's no reason to believe that enlightenment is on the way.
The Guardian
3
It might aim to create general enlightenment, but it runs on money.
The Irish Times
4
And yet it had been given only in the spirit of enlightenment.
The Maid of the Whispering Hills
5
Yet the exchanges only elicit public enlightenment once in a blue moon.
The Guardian
6
This enlightenment importuned him; he tried to extinguish it and could not.
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 1...
7
Who knows what enlightenment they may find on such a happy occasion.
The Irish Times
8
Youve got more than you bargained for in the way of enlightenment.
Fanny's First Play
9
Living with them has taught me the value of education, of enlightenment.
The secret lives of baba segi's wives
10
He led me into his first piece of enlightenment with a question.
Climbing Magazine
11
For the enlightenment of the world dependeth upon the existence of man.
Selections from the Writings of `Abdu'l-Bahá
12
Attending this protest should be the start of your journey towards enlightenment.
The South African
13
Maybe I'll understand one day, but I am not impatient for enlightenment.
Hemlock Grove
14
The enlightenment you seek doesn't only come from failing cores and madness.
Sea of Rust
15
The barbarism of these proposals was covered by the fig-leaf of enlightenment.
History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume 2 [of 3] / From...
16
We need not watch the stages by which this enlightenment was reached.
Last and First Men
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