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Enlightened

adjective

1.

Having knowledge and spiritual insight.

2.

Characterized by full comprehension of the problem involved. Synonym: educated. "An enlightened electorate"

noun

1.

People who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity. Synonym: initiate.

Enlighten

verb

1.

Make understand. Synonym: edify.

2.

Give spiritual insight to; in religion. Synonym: irradiate.

3.

Make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear. Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out. "Clear up the question of who is at fault"

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"Enlightened" Quotes from Famous Books

... add that the same enlightened principles which guided them to make careful provision for these important objects, led them also to take a kindly interest in the humbler poor and aged, and to urge both on the state and on the members of the church the duty they owed to this long despised and neglected class of the population. ...

— The Scottish Reformation - Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics • Alexander F. Mitchell

... truth—that Jean is the fruit of his mother's adultery with the testator—and this "works like poison in his brain," till—Jean, having gained another piece of luck in Mme. Rosemilly's hand, and having, though enlightened by Pierre and by his mother's confession, very common-sensibly decided that he will not resign the legacy, smirched as it is—Pierre accepts a surgeon-ship on a Transatlantic steamer, ...

— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 - To the Close of the 19th Century • George Saintsbury

... It would have enlightened Hester a little about him to watch him for half an hour where he stood behind the counter of the bank: there he was the least courteous of proverbially discourteous bank-clerks, whose manners are about of the same breed ...

— Weighed and Wanting • George MacDonald

... career Buddhism and Christianity were the greatest agencies for spreading civilization in Asia and Europe respectively. They brought with them art and literature: they had the encouragement of the most enlightened princes: those who did not accept them in many cases remained obviously on a lower level. Much the same thing happens in Africa to-day. The natives who accept Mohammedanism or Christianity are moved, not by the arguments of the Koran or Bible, but ...

— Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Charles Eliot

... explained curiosities down to the level of the youthful intellect; and Phoebe, scientific enough to know if she went wrong in botany or locality, began a word or two of modest suggestion, only to be patronizingly enlightened, and stopped short, in the fear of pedantry. Phoebe had yet to learn the ignorance of ...

— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge

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