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• Enlightenment — may refer to:pirituality and religion* Enlightenment (concept), religious or intellectual * Mysticism, pursuit of communion with an ultimate reality History*Age of Enlightenment, period in Western history and its corresponding movement *Scottish… …   Wikipedia

• Enlightenment — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Enlightenment …   Wikipedia Español

• Enlightenment — Bildschirmfoto von Enlightenment 0.16 …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Enlightenment — Enlightenment …   Википедия

• ENLIGHTENMENT — ENLIGHTENME Si l’Enlightenment peut être distingué assez aisément de la «philosophie des Lumières» française, cela se voit, dès l’abord, en ce que l’Enlightenment ne se préoccupe pas de lutter contre l’Église; de même, l’Aufklärung, à l’origine,… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• enlightenment — 1660s, action of enlightening, from ENLIGHTEN (Cf. enlighten) + MENT (Cf. ment). Only ever used in figurative sense, of spiritual enlightenment, etc. Attested from 1865 as a translation of Ger. Aufklärung, a name for the spirit and system of… …   Etymology dictionary

• Enlightenment — the Enlightenment a period in the eighteenth century when many writers and scientists believed that science and knowledge, not religion, could improve people s lives …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• enlightenment — ► NOUN 1) the action of enlightening or the state of being enlightened. 2) (the Enlightenment) a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition …   English terms dictionary

• enlightenment — [en līt′ nmənt, in līt′ nmənt] n. an enlightening or being enlightened the Enlightenment 1. a mainly 18th cent. European philosophical movement characterized by a reliance on reason and experience rather than dogma and tradition and by an… …   English World dictionary

• Enlightenment — En*light en*ment, n. 1. Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed. [1913 Webster] 2. same as {Aufkl[ A]rung}. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• enlightenment — I noun appreciation, awakening, clarification, cognition, cognizance, comprehension, direction, disabusal, disclosure, edification, education, elucidation, enucleation, experience explication, explanation, familiarity, illumination, insight,… …   Law dictionary