ENLIGHTENED in a Sentence

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She should be gently and discreetly enlightened, rather with the reflection of realities than with their harsh and direct light.

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 Meanings and Examples of ENLIGHTENED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
enlightened
 a.  illuminated; supplied with light; light-giving; educated or informed
Classic Sentence: (56 in 4 pages)
1  It set free all the unknown social quantities; it softened spirits, it calmed, appeased, enlightened; it caused the waves of civilization to flow over the earth.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
2  That which enlightened this man was his heart.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT
3  He had enlightened Marius by chance and without being aware of the fact, as does a candle which some one brings; he had been the candle and not the some one.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP
4  Monsiuer Pabourgeot, your just reputation as an enlightened protector.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—QUADRIFRONS
5  She should be gently and discreetly enlightened, rather with the reflection of realities than with their harsh and direct light.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—CHANGE OF GATE
6  Coquenard recognized her present, and could not at first comprehend this restitution; but the visit of Porthos soon enlightened her.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 34 IN WHICH THE EQUIPMENT OF ARAMIS AND PORTHOS IS TREATED OF
7  "Especially to gentlemen," added May, with a look which enlightened Amy as to one cause of her sudden fall from favor.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY
8  The excellent papa labored under the delusion that he was, and reveled in long discussions with the kindred spirit, till a chance remark of his more observing grandson suddenly enlightened him.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
9  Here the gentlemen interposed with earnest petitions to be further enlightened on these two last-named points; but they got only blushes, ejaculations, tremors, and titters, in return for their importunity.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
10  As we walked home, I would fain have enlightened my charge on the characters of the people we had quitted: but she got it into her head that I was prejudiced against them.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
11  Another storm enlightened Jura with faint flashes; and another darkened and sometimes disclosed the Mole, a peaked mountain to the east of the lake.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
12  It moved slowly, but it enlightened my path, and I again went out in search of berries.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
13  Levin did not for the first moment understand what it was confused her, but she immediately enlightened him.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 17
14  This new feeling has not changed me, has not made me happy and enlightened all of a sudden, as I had dreamed, just like the feeling for my child.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 19
15  That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia, was given to the enlightened world by the whaleman.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24. The Advocate.
Example Sentence:
1  Although his purpose was to edify and not to entertain his audience, many of his listeners were amused rather than enlightened.
2  The Head Pelican reminds us that it's still illegal to sell such products in enlightened Alabama.
3  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.
4  It was the enlightened afrancesados who were to confuse political issues by their peculiar relation to liberalism.
5  The special terminology developed by some authorities in the field has done more to confuse the layman than to enlighten him.
6  The purpose of these books was to enlighten members of tribal cultures.
7  I hope the results of my research will enlighten my colleagues.
8  If all we needed was more knowledge, then the search for enlightenment might be the answer.
9  We need more men of culture and enlightenment; we needn't any philistine among us.