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illumine

[ ih-loo-min ]

verb (used with or without object)

illumined, illumining.


illumine

/ ɪˈːɪ /

verb

  1. a literary word for illuminate
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈܳԲ, adjective
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Other Word Forms

  • ·m·Բ· adjective
  • -·mԱ adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of illumine1

1300–50; Middle English illuminen < Latin ū to light up, equivalent to il- il- 1 + ū- (stem of ū ) light + -- thematic vowel + -re infinitive suffix
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Word History and Origins

Origin of illumine1

C14: from Latin ū to make light; see illuminate
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Example Sentences

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The lighting illumines each river in brilliantly bright backdrop colors.

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“She is the one of course that I am trying to get. … To mark her off, to describe, to illumine, to celebrate, to get rid of her.”

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There was a din of crickets outside, and the pauseless roar of the river, and the stately world was illumined with pearly moonlight; but inside the log it was dark and hushed, like a crypt.

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The fog of war obscures even the most illumined conscience.

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Rather, my time with Jackson illumined a generative confusion to how she understood abstraction in art and life.

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