illumine
verb (used with or without object)
to illuminate.
self-illumined
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a word derived from
illumine.
Example Sentences
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On this background of shade the lovely vision stood out like an angelic appearance, self-illumined, and giving rather than receiving light.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury
There sit the seers and gods, there are shining, self-illumined worlds, made of light, resplendent.
From The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Edward Washburn Hopkins
He expected a sort of self-illumined Joan of Arc with eyes that saw visions, with spirit flaming.
From The Nine-Tenths by James Oppenheim
It is not the soul which is self-illumined but knowledge; so it is knowledge which illumines both the self and the object in one operation.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
