请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 enlightener
释义 enlightener|ɛnˈlaɪt(ə)nə(r)|
Also 8 inlightener.
[f. enlighten v. + -er1]
One who, or that which, enlightens; one who imparts intellectual light, informs or instructs. Rare in physical sense.
1582Bentley Mon. Matrones iii. 225 O mine Inlightener, it is thou that hast taught and instructed me.1667Milton P.L. xii. 271 O sent from Heav'n, Enlightner of my darkness.1750Warburton Doctr. Grace, Is it possible, then, to suppose them [the Apostles] to be deserted by their divine Inlightener?1840Mill Diss. & Disc., Civiliz. (1859) I. 187 Literature..has almost entirely abandoned its mission as an enlightener and improver of them [the current sentiments].1851G. S. Faber Many Mansions (1862) The great Enlightener of Life and Immortality.
b. In pl.: The party of enlightenment, the ‘illuminatists’. Obs. (? nonce-use.)
1800Month. Mag. VIII. 597 The first practical victory won by the Enlighteners over their antagonists, was the suppression of the Order of Jesuits by Clement XIV.
随便看

 

英语词典包含277258条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/11/5 18:54:44