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Illumination   /ɪlˌumənˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Illumination

noun
1.
A condition of spiritual awareness; divine illumination.  Synonym: light.
2.
The degree of visibility of your environment.
3.
An interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding.  Synonyms: clarification, elucidation.
4.
The luminous flux incident on a unit area.  Synonym: illuminance.
5.
Painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts).  Synonym: miniature.



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"Illumination" Quotes from Famous Books



... voice, addressed Filadoro thus, "From what meadow has this flower of beauty sprung? From what mine has this treasure of beauteous things come to light? O happy woods, O fortunate groves, which this nobility inhabits, which this illumination of the festivals ...
— Stories from Pentamerone • Giambattista Basile
... All this illumination spread a light around the cafe, lit up the great trees on the bank, from top to bottom, the trunks of which stood out in pale gray and the leaves in a milky green upon the deep black of the fields and the heavens. The orchestra, ...
— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume IV (of 8) • Guy de Maupassant
... and levelling a big-jointed forefinger at his partner. "That's what every new idea has had to meet. It's no argument! People scoffed at the idea of gas lighting when it was new. Called it 'burning smoke,' and made merry over it. That was as recently as 1832. But ten years later, gas-illumination was in ...
— The Air Trust • George Allan England
... ship again he had gone directly to his cabin. Here he took from its small but richly embroidered case a slender chain of gold, threaded so closely with garnets that even in the dim light of the one flaring lantern, the only illumination the room could boast, it glowed, a glancing stream of crimson, in his hand. This he carried to the light and as he examined it ...
— Their Mariposa Legend • Charlotte Herr
... an inward illumination not to be doubted, and has stayed with me, a governor and a guide. It led me down the river to Memphis, where I made ready for the desert. I bought my camel, and came hither without rest, by way of Suez and Kufileh, and up through the lands of Moab ...
— Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ • Lew Wallace


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