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enlightenment
has definitions from the fields of politics,Hinduism,Buddhism
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[ noun ] education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge
Used in print (Newton Stallknecht, "Ideas and Literature," in Newton S...)A contrast of the scripture reading of , let us say , St._Augustine , John_Bunyan , and Thomas_Jefferson , all three of whom found in such study a real source of enlightenment , can tell us a great_deal about these three men and the age that each represented and helped bring to conscious expression . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and individual consciousness
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[ noun ] (politics) a movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions
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