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enlightenment as in:  provided for your enlightenment

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  • Ever since marrying Francois, I had clung to the notion that my mother-in-law, in a moment of enlightenment, would cast aside her prejudices and join Francois and me in celebrating our union.   (source)
    enlightenment = increased understanding
  • So, perhaps that is where one must eventually head, if one has any hopes of achieving enlightenment without the interference of meddlers.   (source)
    enlightenment = a state of increased understanding
  • Women, once celebrated as an essential half of spiritual enlightenment, had been banished from the temples of the world.   (source)
    enlightenment = increased understanding
  • But none of the research provided much enlightenment on my number one area of real interest: Teenage friendship.   (source)
  • Maybe my assignment was to bring you enlightenment, Taylor.   (source)
  • Because until this moment—until the first waves of pure and utter enlightenment wash over me—I had no idea that he was even missing.   (source)
  • Chet Douglass, leaning against the side of the Prize Table, continued to blow musical figures for his own enlightenment.   (source)
  • The way it was angled in the fork, it seemed to be on display, for their benefit or enlightenment: this is a leg.   (source)
  • Some cheap do-it-yourself enlightenment handbook, Nirvana for halfwits.   (source)
    enlightenment = an elevated spiritual state that includes increased understanding
  • The Colonel seemed resigned to that, but if the Investigation had once been his idea, it was now the thing that held me together, and I still hoped for enlightenment.   (source)
    enlightenment = elevation to a higher spiritual state with increased understanding
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  • Everybody always says this painting is about reason and enlightenment, the dawn of scientific inquiry, all that, but to me it's creepy how polite and formal they are, milling around the slab like a buffet at a cocktail party.   (source)
    enlightenment = increased understanding
  • To my frequent and clumsy attempts at piercing this mystery, the Three Score and Ten have offered their usual enlightenment.   (source)
  • It's true in life as well, where sex can be pleasure, sacrifice, submission, rebellion, resignation, supplication, domination, enlightenment, the whole works.   (source)
  • Or because they believed that, emotions out of the way, supreme rationality would result, utter logic, true enlightenment.   (source)
  • He was merely trying, that sigh suggested, to drag us all toward enlightenment through the marrow of our own poor female bones.   (source)
  • Farther down the page there were two typewritten lines of poetry: TRUE ENLIGHTENMENT IS TO MAN LIKE SUNLIGHT TO THE SOIL —N.   (source)
  • Enlightenment has to come from within.   (source)
  • There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man—with human flesh.   (source)
  • What up until this moment has felt like a random, disconnected series of unhappy events she now views as necessary steps in a journey toward ...enlightenment is perhaps too strong a word, but there are others, less lofty, like self-acceptance and perspective.   (source)
  • Tom didn't know how much enlightenment there had been, but there'd been comfort a fair few times and it had been mutual.   (source)
  • With my old friends mired in status quo, how could I explain my summer enlightenment?   (source)
  • She felt pity for Saintly Amma, whose dream of enlightenment for Africa was vanity that cost Anjali's life.   (source)
  • A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon.   (source)
  • Brian felt a sting of enlightenment.   (source)
  • If possible, enlightenment.   (source)
  • While the Elizabethan age is considered by many historians to be one of enlightenment, given the rise of such geniuses as Shakespeare and Sir Walter Raleigh (see: cape in the mud, etc.), there is no question that Elizabeth, toward the end of her reign, began to behave in an unpredictable and skittish fashion.   (source)
  • In Gnostic texts, the focus wasn't on sin and repentance, but instead on illusion and enlightenment.   (source)
  • There was the brilliant mathematician and political theorist Marie-Jean A. N. Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet, another of the philosophes of the French enlightenment, whose strange pallor Adams took to be the result of "hard study."   (source)
  • In one horrifying moment of enlightenment, Carlos saw that Thomas Hunter had slapped the gun from his hand and was now rolling away from him, far too quickly for any ordinary man.   (source)
  • I would search the Scriptures, but not for enlightenment or instruction.   (source)
  • What is in mind is a sort of Chautauqua...that's the only name I can think of for it...like the traveling tent-show Chautauquas that used to move across America, this America, the one that we are now in, an old-time series of popular talks intended to edify and entertain, improve the mind and bring culture and enlightenment to the ears and thoughts of the hearer.   (source)
  • As Forsyth saw it, Judson's decision was not the sudden enlightenment that the abolitionist papers were claiming.   (source)
  • For your enlightenment, all my colleagues said to me was that you had been ill, that you hadn't been functioning at the level of your past accomplishments until the end of your service.   (source)
  • In such a world John Galt, the man of incalculable intellectual power, will remain an unskilled laborer. Francisco d'Anconia, the miraculous producer of wealth, will become a wastrel-and Ragnar Danneskjold, the man of enlightenment, will become the man of violence.   (source)
    enlightenment = great understanding
  • The boy possesses only the power of destruction, but 21-21 possesses the power of enlightenment, which is immeasurably the more dangerous of the two.   (source)
    enlightenment = increased understanding
  • Just because I'm choosy about what I want—in this case, enlightenment, or peace, instead of money or prestige or fame or any of those things—doesn't mean I'm not as egotistical and self-seeking as everybody else.   (source)
  • He was the only man I ever knew to really achieve enlightenment.   (source)
    enlightenment = an elevated spiritual state with increased understanding
  • Above all, the ogreish mother who, Barnard enlightenment or no, has dominated Les's life with bitchery and vengeance ever since the moment when she caught Leslie, then three, diddling herself and forced her to wear hand-splints for months as prophylaxis against self-abuse.   (source)
    enlightenment = provided with increased understanding
  • But I never dreamed I could learn as long as I was away from the schoolroom, and that bits of enlightenment far-reaching in my life went on as ever in their own good time.   (source)
    enlightenment = increased understanding
  • It may bring you some enlightenment.   (source)
  • Why had Gotama, at that time, in the hour of all hours, sat down under the bo-tree, where the enlightenment hit him?   (source)
    the enlightenment = an enhanced spiritual state
  • This has been known for a long time, and the world has been preparing for an upheaval that would bring enlightenment to the people and put everything in its proper place.   (source)
    enlightenment = increased understanding
  • A red-headed researcher, actually working on a problem of a transistor which would record the TP impulse, hastily invented the fact that TP optical transmission was astigmatic and humbly requested enlightenment.   (source)
  • The secret accumulation of knowledge — a gradual spread of enlightenment — ultimately a proletarian rebellion — the overthrow of the Party.   (source)
  • And those others, the men and women under sentence to death, shared his bleak enlightenment.   (source)
  • Out of some innocent phrase may come enlightenment.   (source)
  • The point is that Buddhahood, Enlightenment, cannot be communicated, but only the way to Enlightenment.   (source)
    enlightenment = an elevated spiritual state that includes increased understanding
  • She gazed at the matron while into her face there came an expression of enlightenment, sudden comprehension; none could have said if it were simulated or not.   (source)
    enlightenment = increased understanding
  • This conviction, he believed, was something apart from his religious life; it was an enlightenment that came to him as a man, a human creature.   (source)
  • "What's he been doing?" said McGuire doubtfully, turning to Coker for enlightenment.   (source)
  • Malice, sir, is the spirit of criticism, and criticism marks the origin of progress and enlightenment.   (source)
  • Enlightenment and help must come from somewhere—otherwise how was she to get the fare, let alone raise money for Clyde's appeal?   (source)
  • This frame of mind barred all desire of holding further parley with the fellow, even were it but for the purpose of gaining some enlightenment as to his design in approaching him.   (source)
  • Would the two, for his enlightenment, try to ascertain just what they had in common, and why they belonged to the same party?   (source)
  • The work which Professor Booker T. Washington has accomplished for the education, good citizenship, and popular enlightenment in his chosen field of labour in the South entitles him to rank with our national benefactors.   (source)
  • She gazed around the room at the pictures and photographs hanging upon the wall, and discovered in some corner an old family album, which she examined with the keenest interest, appealing to Madame Lebrun for enlightenment concerning the many figures and faces which she discovered between its pages.   (source)
  • They themselves offered me no enlightenment, and I could not call upon any other flowers to satisfy this mysterious longing.   (source)
  • She had inadvertently heard Nels's conversation with Stewart; she had listened, hoping to hear some good news or to hear the worst; she had learned both, and, moreover, enlightenment on one point of Stewart's complex motives.   (source)
  • However doubtful she might feel her situation to be, she would rather persist in darkness than owe her enlightenment to Selden.   (source)
  • [rising in sudden enlightenment] O-o-o-o-oh!   (source)
  • Some men have but felt some little qualm of kindness towards their fellow-men, and the fact has been quite enough to persuade them that they stand alone in the van of enlightenment and that no one has such humanitarian feelings as they.   (source)
  • I looked to my companion for enlightenment.   (source)
  • The cruelty of fooled honesty is often great after enlightenment, and it was mighty in Clare now.   (source)
  • 'In the dawn,' the lama went on more gravely, ready rosary clicking between the slow sentences, 'came enlightenment.   (source)
  • With such assurance as proceeds from clear enlightenment of the spirit—with absolute assurance—now know I that he who first goes yonder with the inscription about his neck is what the inscription proclaims him—KING OF THE JEWS.   (source)
  • People who can do nothing else ought to rear people while the rest work for their happiness and enlightenment.   (source)
  • These also supply the proletariat with fresh elements of enlightenment and progress.   (source)
  • With praiseworthy discretion, the good lady said nothing, and betrayed no sign of enlightenment, but cordially urged Laurie to stay and begged Amy to enjoy his society, for it would do her more good than so much solitude.   (source)
  • Now that Peter Featherstone was up-stairs, his property could be discussed with all that local enlightenment to be found on the spot: some rural and Middlemarch neighbors expressed much agreement with the family and sympathy with their interest against the Vincys, and feminine visitors were even moved to tears, in conversation with Mrs. Waule, when they recalled the fact that they themselves had been disappointed in times past by codicils and marriages for spite on the part of ungrateful elderly gentlemen, who, it might have been supposed, had been spared for something better.   (source)
  • From this news I derived some personal enlightenment having nothing to do with science.   (source)
  • You'll be one-and-twenty before you know where you are, and then perhaps you'll get some further enlightenment.   (source)
  • An inward shudder of hideous enlightenment flashed through him; an idea which made him quiver traversed his mind.   (source)
  • It would have annoyed her to express a liking for something he, in his superior enlightenment, would think she oughtn't to like; or to pass by something at which the truly initiated mind would arrest itself.   (source)
  • I am surprised that in our days, in this century of enlightenment, anyone should still persist in proscribing an intellectual relaxation that is inoffensive, moralising, and sometimes even hygienic; is it not, doctor?   (source)
  • There can be no doubt that they who are thus roused awake by the influence of thought over matter, though the mode in which this influence is exercised must remain hidden from our curiosity until it shall be explained, should that hour ever arrive, by the entire enlightenment of the soul on the subject of all human mysteries.   (source)
  • When the ranks of society are unequal, and men unlike each other in condition, there are some individuals invested with all the power of superior intelligence, learning, and enlightenment, whilst the multitude is sunk in ignorance and prejudice.   (source)
  • God does not protect you. Intelligence protects you.  Enlightenment.
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  • Why else in recent years would the god Vishnu be moved to incarnate among men, other than to teach them the Way of Enlightenment?   (source)
    enlightenment = an elevated spiritual state that includes increased understanding
  • A koan is like a riddle that's supposed to help you toward enlightenment in Zen Buddhism.   (source)
    enlightenment = an elevated spiritual state
  • The pyramid essentially represents enlightenment.   (source)
    enlightenment = increased understanding
  • Enlightenment meant seeing through the third eye and sensing designs in history's muddles.   (source)
  • I would need more than wind chimes and enlightenment.   (source)
  • The plane was over land again when a flash of enlightenment struck him.   (source)
  • We have seen in our own time how a young democracy needs popular enlightenment.   (source)
  • The mystic may have to seek the path of "purification and enlightenment" to his meeting with God.   (source)
  • But I wasn't convinced enlightenment struck like lightning.   (source)
    enlightenment = elevation to the ultimate spiritual state
  • The promise of a great transformational enlightenment has been prophesied forever.   (source)
    enlightenment = increased understanding
  • The shining triangle represents enlightenment.   (source)
  • History is necessary for the enlightenment of man and the destruction of evil.   (source)
  • The mind of man ....receiving enlightenment.   (source)
  • "A New World Order," Langdon repeated, "based on scientific enlightenment."   (source)
  • They were scientists who revered enlightenment.   (source)
  • The Illuminati often considered great artists and sculptors honorary brothers in enlightenment.   (source)
  • For your enlightenment he's one of your undersecretaries from the Fast East Section.   (source)
  • You need some enlightenment, William, Johan snapped.   (source)
  • Enlightenment did not rise in him as the flames had briefly risen in those lamps.   (source)
  • He gathered from its roar that he had graduated with honors, that the Architects' Guild of America had presented him with a gold medal and that he had been awarded the Prix de Paris by the Society for Architectural Enlightenment of the U.S.A.—a four-year scholarship at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris.   (source)
  • Guy Francon, of the illustrious firm of Francon & Heyer, vice-president of the Architects' Guild of America, member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, member of the National Fine Arts Commission, Secretary of the Arts and Crafts League of New York, chairman of the Society for Architectural Enlightenment of the U.S.A.;   (source)
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Enlightenment as in:  during the Enlightenment...

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  • ...various religious cultures with their respective rights can coexist, on condition (and to the degree) that they respect the criteria of the Enlightenment culture and subordinate themselves to it.   (source)
  • For two days I tried to wrestle meaning from the textbook's dense passages, but terms like "civic humanism" and "the Scottish Enlightenment" dotted the page like black holes, sucking all the other words into them.   (source)
    Enlightenment = 18th century movement that further advanced the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions
  • Having dedicated the first several years to a study of the French (covering their idioms and forms of address, the personalities of Napoleon, Richelieu, and Talleyrand, the essence of the Enlightenment, the genius of Impressionism, and their prevailing aptitude for je ne sail quoi), the Count and Osip spent the next few years studying the British...   (source)
    The Enlightenment = a primarily 18th century movement that further advanced the use of reason in Western civilization
  • Folks, we're at the dawn of the Second Enlightenment.   (source)
  • The industrial revolution was just starting up, and this new world would threaten everything people had known during the Enlightenment; at the same time, the new science and the new faith in science—including anatomical research, of course—imperiled many religious and philosophical tenets of English society in the first decades of the nineteenth century.   (source)
  • The nineteenth century, he concluded, would be to the study of Mind what the eighteenth had been to the study of Matter — an Age of Enlightenment.   (source)
  • At this dark crossroads, mankind will at last unearth the Word and herald in a wondrous new age of enlightenment.'   (source)
  • He was a gigantic figure here in Scandinavia, marking the transition from the Baroque period to the Age of Enlightenment.   (source)
  • If Adams had any thoughts or feelings about the passing of the epochal eighteenth century—any observations on the Age of Enlightenment, the century of Johnson, Voltaire, the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the age of Pitt and Washington, the advent of the United States of America—or if he had any premonitions or words to the wise about the future of his country or of humankind, he committed none to paper.   (source)
  • The synagogue was attended mostly by men like my father— teachers from my yeshiva, and others who had come under the influence of the Jewish Enlightenment in Europe and whose distaste for Hasidism was intense and outspoken.   (source)
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  • Thus Greece gave way to Rome, and the Russian Enlightenment has become the Russian Revolution.   (source)
  • For it was, of course, quite ridiculous to try to tie the concept of revolution exclusively to progress and a victoriously onrushing Enlightenment.   (source)
  • Meanwhile in Europe, the enlightenment was a reasonable time.   (source)
  • He seems to me to have betrayed unconsciously, and so early, that timid despair which leads so many in our unhappy society, who dread cynicism and its corrupting influences, and mistakenly attribute all the mischief to European enlightenment, to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them.   (source)
  • The Enlightenment -- from the way needles are made to the way cannons are founded   (source)
  • He thought of Peter's faith that an age of enlightenment was imminent.   (source)
  • This was so characteristic that the French Enlightenment is often called the Age of Reason.   (source)
  • This division of power originated from the French Enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu.   (source)
  • Let me outline some of the ideas that many of the French Enlightenment philosophers had in common.   (source)
  • First of all I shall give you the most important facts about the French Enlightenment.   (source)
  • But this criticism of 'civilization' was already being voiced by French Enlightenment philosophers.   (source)
  • This idea is also the core of the French Enlightenment.   (source)
  • Alberto will soon be telling you about the French Enlightenment.   (source)
  • But most of the Enlightenment philosophers thought it was irrational to imagine a world without God.   (source)
  • The Enlightenment philosophers had often had a 'static' view of history.   (source)
  • So schools date from the Middle Ages, and pedagogy from the Enlightenment.   (source)
  • Romanticism represents not least a reaction to the Enlightenment's mechanistic universe.   (source)
  • After a minute or two he said: "That was more or less what I wanted to say about the Enlightenment."   (source)
  • It is no accident that the science of pedagogy was founded during the Enlightenment.   (source)
  • Previously we spoke of the Renaissance, the Baroque period, and the Enlightenment.   (source)
  • It started in Germany, arising as a reaction to the Enlightenment's unequivocal emphasis on reason.   (source)
  • The coming age of enlightenment.   (source)
  • The French Enlightenment philosophers did not content themselves with theoretical views on man's place in society.   (source)
  • All in all, Locke was a forerunner of many liberal ideas which later, during the period of the French Enlightenment in the eighteenth century, came into full flower.   (source)
  • Many of the French Enlightenment philosophers visited England, which was in many ways more liberal than their home country, and were intrigued by the English natural sciences, especially Newton and his universal physics.   (source)
  • She opened the letter and read aloud: Dear both of you, Sophie's philosophy teacher ought to have underlined the significance of the French Enlightenment for the ideals and principles the UN is founded on.   (source)
  • The Enlightenment philosophers thought that once reason and knowledge became widespread, humanity would make great progress.   (source)
  • They longed for bygone eras, such as the Middle Ages, which now became enthusiastically reappraised after the Enlightenment's negative evaluation.   (source)
  • You cannot single out particular thoughts from antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, or the Enlightenment and say they were right or wrong.   (source)
  • It would not be wrong to say that the idea of the intrinsic value of childhood dates from the Enlightenment.   (source)
  • But the Enlightenment philosophers wanted to establish certain rights that everybody was entitled to simply by being born.   (source)
  • As early as 1787 the Enlightenment philosopher Condorcet published a treatise on the rights of women.   (source)
  • This led to the enlightenment movement.   (source)
  • The greatest monument to the enlightenment movement was characteristically enough a huge encyclopedia.   (source)
  • Like the humanists of antiquity—such as Socrates and the Stoics—most of the Enlightenment philosophers had an unshakable faith in human reason.   (source)
  • Now the Enlightenment philosophers saw it as their duty to lay a foundation for morals, religion, and ethics in accordance with man's immutable reason.   (source)
  • Some of the Enlightenment thinkers had drawn attention to the importance of feeling—not least Rousseau—but at that time it was a criticism of the bias toward reason.   (source)
  • But 'nature' to the Enlightenment philosophers meant almost the same as 'reason/ since human reason was a gift of nature rather than of religion or of 'civilization.'   (source)
  • He lived in the Age of Enlightenment at the same time as great French thinkers like Voltaire and Rousseau, and he traveled widely in Europe before returning to settle down in Edinburgh toward the end of his life.   (source)
  • According to the Enlightenment philosophers, what religion needed was to be stripped of all the irrational dogmas or doctrines that had got attached to the simple teachings of Jesus during the course of ecclesiastical history.   (source)
  • The Enlightenment.   (source)
  • A few days later, Adams was present for what was felt to be one of the high moments in the Age of Enlightenment when, at the Academy of Sciences, Voltaire and Franklin, like two aged actors, as Adams described them, embraced each other in the French manner, "hugging one another in their arms, and kissing each other's checks."   (source)
  • Social contract—that's the Enlightenment, that's Rousseau.   (source)
  • Freedom was in fact probably more an idea of Romanticism than of the Enlightenment, for as a concept it shared with Romanticism the same complex, never-to-be-disentangled interlocking of the human instinct to expand and the passionate, constricting thrust of the individual ego.   (source)
  • The achievements that the Renaissance and the Enlightenment wrested from the past—and may I emphasize, my dear sir, the struggles contained in that verb—were individual human personality, human rights, and human freedom.   (source)
  • Although one found pleasure in Naphta's concern for the enlightenment of the common people, that pleasure was diminished somewhat by the fear that what prevailed here was an instinctual tendency to shroud the commonfolk and the world in illiterate darkness.   (source)
  • And as for pedagogics, the conception of human dignity that sought to ban corporal punishment had its roots, to hear Naphta tell it, in the liberal individualism of the era of bourgeois humanism, in the Enlightenment's absolutism of the ego, which was about to atrophy and be replaced by a wave of newer, less namby-pamby social concepts, ideas of submission and obedience, of bridles and bonds, and since such things were not to be had without holy cruelty, flogging would thus be regarded with quite a different eye.   (source)
  • The Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the teachings of nineteenth-century science and economics have omitted nothing, absolutely nothing, that seemed even vaguely useful for furthering such degradation, beginning with modern astronomy—which turned the focal point of the universe, that sublime arena where God and Satan struggled to possess the creature whom they both ardently coveted, into an unimportant little planet, and, for now at least, has put an end to man's grand position in the cosmos, upon which astrology was likewise based.   (source)
  • A pedagogic method that regards itself as a daughter of the Enlightenment and employs educational methods based on criticism, on the liberation and nursing of the ego, on the breaking down of ordained living patterns—such a pedagogy may still achieve moments of rhetorical success, but for those who know and understand, it is, beyond all doubt, sublimely backward.   (source)
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  • Then for seven days, Gautama—now the Buddha, the Enlightened—sat motionless in bliss; for seven days he stood apart and regarded the spot on which he had received enlightenment; for seven days he paced between the place of the sitting and the place of the standing; for seven days he abode in a pavilion furnished by the gods and reviewed the whole doctrine of causality and release; for seven days he sat beneath the tree where the girl Sujata had brought him milk-rice in a golden bowl, and there meditated on the doctrin†   (source)
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