ENLIGHTENMENT in a Sentence

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Although his purpose was to edify and not to entertain his audience, many of his listeners were amused rather than enlightened.

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 Meanings and Examples of ENLIGHTENMENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
enlightenment
 n.  education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge
Classic Sentence: (56 in 4 pages)
1  Nor were his colleagues a wit inferior to him in enlightenment.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
2  "The cause is lack of enlightenment," said Chichikov.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
3  Yet enlightenment has reached us right enough.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
4  You will perhaps also see in your further initiation a like method of enlightenment.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III
5  Each historian, according to his view of what constitutes a nation's progress, looks for these conditions in the greatness, wealth, freedom, or enlightenment of citizens of France or some other country.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER IV
6  The most usual generalizations adopted by almost all the historians are: freedom, equality, enlightenment, progress, civilization, and culture.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER IV
7  In certain cases, education and enlightenment can serve to eke out evil.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
8  The lad asked for no further enlightenment.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
9  It is already much to have solaced it; its enlightenment is yet another point.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
10  You will have scribblers, chatterers, lawyers, orators, tribunes, discussions, progress, enlightenment, the rights of man, the liberty of the press, and this is the way that your children will be brought home to you.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII—THE GRANDFATHER
11  There, no more than elsewhere, did the information obtained lead to any enlightenment.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND
12  An inward shudder of hideous enlightenment flashed through him; an idea which made him quiver traversed his mind.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN
13  You'll be one-and-twenty before you know where you are, and then perhaps you'll get some further enlightenment.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXX
14  If you love your child as a good father, you will not desire only wealth, luxury, honor for your infant; you will be anxious for his salvation, his spiritual enlightenment with the light of truth.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 1
15  People who can do nothing else ought to rear people while the rest work for their happiness and enlightenment.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 2
Example Sentence:
1  If all we needed was more knowledge, then the search for enlightenment might be the answer.
2  We need more men of culture and enlightenment; we needn't any philistine among us.
3  The special terminology developed by some authorities in the field has done more to confuse the layman than to enlighten him.
4  The purpose of these books was to enlighten members of tribal cultures.
5  I hope the results of my research will enlighten my colleagues.
6  Although his purpose was to edify and not to entertain his audience, many of his listeners were amused rather than enlightened.
7  The Head Pelican reminds us that it's still illegal to sell such products in enlightened Alabama.
8  Feminists should be delighted by their enlightened commitment to sexual equality, their assumption that what's sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose, too.
9  It was the enlightened afrancesados who were to confuse political issues by their peculiar relation to liberalism.