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English
Etymology
From en- + light.
Verb
enlight (third-person singular simple present enlights, present participle enlighting, simple past and past participle enlighted or enlit)
- (archaic, transitive) To illuminate.
1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: W Lewis ; and sold by W Taylor , T Osborn , and J Graves , →OCLC:Which from the first has shone on ages past,
Enlights the present, and shall warm the last.
1783, William Blake, An Imitation of Spencer:Let rays of truth enlight his sleeping brain.
1910 July, Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell, “The Future of the Human Race”, in Popular Science Monthly:Others, whether they be rich or poor, are the guides and lights of the nation, raising its tone, enlighting its difficulties, and improving its ideals.
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