illume
[ih-loom]
Origin of illume
First recorded in 1595–1605; short for illumine
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Related Words for illume
edify, instruct, polish, illustrate, perfect, illumine, explain, gloss, better, enlighten, define, finish, elucidate, lighten, express, clarify, interpret, improve, expound, lightExamples from the Web for illume
Historical Examples of illume
Three candles that illume every darkness: truth, nature, knowledge.
Ancient Irish PoetryVarious
Can one illume a leaden sky,Or tear apart the shadowy veil Thicker than pitch, no star on high,Not one funereal glimmer pale?
Baudelaire: His Prose and PoetryCharles Baudelaire
I admired the condensed wisdom of this, but, like experience, it only serves to illume the path over which I have passed.
Adopting An Abandoned FarmKate Sanborn
All my faculties tend to self-preservation; there, they converge as rays in a focus; in that focus they illume and—they burn.
A Strange Story, CompleteEdward Bulwer-Lytton
But, my young friend, it is not the light of the noon-day sun that ought to illume Christian charity.
illume
Word Origin for illume
C17: shortened from illumine
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