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Aufklärung

American  
[ouf-kle-roong] / ˈaʊfˌklɛ rʊŋ /

noun

German.
  1. enlightenment.

  2. European History. the Enlightenment.


Aufklärung British  
/ ˈaufklɛːruŋ /

noun

  1. the Enlightenment, esp in Germany

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Es braucht humanitäre Korridore, einen Waffenstillstand & vollständige Aufklärung der Kriegsverbrechen.

From The Guardian • Apr. 11, 2022

Yeovil hurried through the Arcade; it was not here, in this atmosphere of staring alien eyes and jangling tongues, that he wanted to read the news of the Imperial Aufklärung.

From When William Came by Saki

It had been so with German Aufklärung, when Ben-David, Itzig, Friedländer, and Jacobson, laid the corner-stone of the intellectual rebirth of their people.

From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Raisin, Jacob S.

The word Aufklärung, which the speech of the Fatherland furnished him, is a better word than ours.

From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Moore, Edward Caldwell

L. Zscharnack: "Reformation und Humanismus im Urteil der deutschen Aufklärung," Protestantische Monatshefte, 1908, xii, 81 ff, 153 ff.

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved