(v. t.) The clearing up of anything which is obscure or not easily understood; an explanation.
Example Sentences:
Enlightenment
Definition:
(n.) Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Kalachakra Puja takes place in the eastern state of Bihar at the holy Bodhgaya site, where the Buddha gained enlightenment.
(2) As Justices Stewart and White famously said, "the only effective restraint upon executive policy and power in the areas of national defence and international affairs may lie in an enlightened citizenry – in an informed and critical public opinion which alone can here protect the values of democratic government".
(3) Society now takes a more enlightened, community-based approach for people like my daughter.
(4) The study was aimed at the enlightenment of intracortical spreading mechanisms in focal epileptic seizures produced by local application of Acetylcholine.
(5) Surjit S Bhalla, a Delhi-based consultant and former World Bank economist, said the British decision was "enlightened".
(6) With careful and enlightened use, pesticide toxicity, to both man and the environment, could be significantly reduced.
(7) Marginalised and wronged groups have been able to use online campaigns to usher us all forward into a more enlightened era in which we are more open-minded about the LGBQT community, disability, race, religion and so forth.
(8) These data provide further enlightenment regarding the mechanisms of the well-preserved functional capacity noted in these patients.
(9) We were enlightened by this therapeutic experience, so we attempted combination therapy using pepleomycin suppositories to supplement intra-cavitary irradiation, for the 11 selected patients who were suffering from uterine fluor.
(10) In the time of enlightenment more and more people thought, that very much cases of suicide were committed in severe illness.
(11) Possible causes have to be seen in long time of hospitalisation (average = 304 days), and apparent inadequate enlightenment of patients and in functionally and cosmetically insufficiencies.
(12) Our purpose is to enlighten the central position of competence in cognitive structures and coping systems of the patients.
(13) in 1991, French philosophy enjoyed a golden age akin to classical Greece or Enlightenment Germany.
(14) I haven't felt this enlightened since extraordinary rendition.
(15) People don’t have sex within only one borough – an example of why balkanisation is more expensive than collectivism The immediate anxiety was that elected officials are often not public health experts: you might get a very enlightened council, who understood the needs of the disenfranchised and prioritised them; or you might get a bunch of puffed-up moralists who spent their syphilis budget on a new aqua aerobics provision for the overweight.
(16) Daud Naji, an Enlighten Movement leader, said on Sunday that they had been told only that there was a “heightened risk” of attack and had subsequently cancelled nine of 10 planned routes.
(17) Beverage price increases were regarded to be the least effective approach by nurses and clerical employees, while physicians felt that the press was the least likely source of enlightenment.
(18) The first museums on history of nature were opened in early Enlightenment and had originated from baroque curio galleries at most of the European courts.
(19) But then the dislocations and traumas caused by industralisation and urbanisation accelerated the growth of ideologies of race and blood in even enlightened western Europe.
(20) Had English rulers taken a more enlightened view of gender issues they might not have got into such a mess.