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Definition of Enlightened
1. Noun. People who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity. "It is very familiar to the initiate"
2. Adjective. Having knowledge and spiritual insight.
3. Adjective. Characterized by full comprehension of the problem involved. "An enlightened electorate"
Definition of Enlightened
1. Adjective. educated or informed ¹
2. Adjective. Made aware of something ¹
3. Adjective. Freed from illusion ¹
4. Adjective. Exceedingly wise ¹
5. Noun. Someone who has been introduced to the mysteries of some activity, religion especially Buddhism ¹
6. Verb. (past of enlighten) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Enlightened
1. enlighten [v] - See also: enlighten
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enlightened
Literary usage of Enlightened
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1895)
"Mrs. Oliphant states facts and gives her sources and authorities, and the comments
she makes are the outcome of an enlightened comprehension of things as ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"Charities, institutions cover the face of the con- Arch itec- tinent, and their
administration is both ture, and efficient and enlightened. ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"The programme of this " enlightened despotism " included the general distribution
and equitable apportionment of taxation, uniformity of legislation, ..."
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