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Definition of Illumes
1. illume [v] - See also: illume
Lexicographical Neighbors of Illumes
Literary usage of Illumes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1772)
"Returning life illumes her eye ; Trembling a father's view to meet, Elvira breathes
her ... illumes ..."
2. The Modern Dunciad: A Satire : with Notes, Biographical and Critical by George Daniel (1815)
"... with contempt and shame; The Christian Banner is again unfurl'd, And TRUTH
once more illumes a falling world. " So let me die in the delightful dream ..."
3. The Second Part of Goethe's Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1886)
"It guides, and with its light illumes, a ball Corporeal. I scent life ! 'twould ill
beseem Me, to life noxious, to be near the living. ..."
4. The Modern Dunciad: A Satire; with Notes, Biographical and Critical by George Daniel (1816)
"... hateful name Stands justly branded with contempt and shame; The Christian
Banner is again unfurl'd, And TRUTH once more illumes a falling world. ..."
5. Our Hawaii by Charmian London (1917)
"which illumes our world, despite its insidiousness, is particularly ardent in
Hawaiian skies. PEARL LOCHS, Tuesday, June 6, 1907. Home in our Dream Harbor, ..."
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