illumine
IPA: ɪɫˈumʌn
verb
- Synonym of illuminate
- (transitive)
- (also figuratively) To shine light on (something).
- (also figuratively) To cause (something) to glow or shine with light.
- (figuratively)
- To enlighten (someone) spiritually; to induce (someone) to adopt, or believe in the truth of, a religion, religious tenet, etc.
- To cause (the eyes) to see.
- To cause (a person or their face) to show enlightenment, happiness, etc.
- (rare) To enlighten (someone) intellectually.
- (art) To decorate (a page of a manuscript book) with ornamental designs.
- (intransitive)
- To become bright; to light up.
- To enlighten intellectually.
- Of a person or their face: to show enlightenment, happiness, etc.
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Examples of "illumine" in Sentences
- Please turn on the lights to illumine the room.
- His form was illumined by as aura of bright light.
- As Chris Williamson sang, "Open my eyes, that I may see, Spirit of Life, illumine me; Open my eyes, Spirit Divine."
- I'd like for readers to tell me, if they trusted me enough to be that honest with me, how the life of Marie Antoinette might illumine life as we live it.
- We hope that looking at Ugly laws, anti-Okie laws, and Jim Crow laws will give us the distance and perspective we need to illumine our own blind spots and democratic failings.
- If and when the external world does impinge on the poet's private thought processes, it is only to illumine some internal dilemma of the worrying poet, to strengthen or invigorate some pitiful struggle of his.
- Who would have thought, for instance, that Hosea's domestic life would illumine his understanding of the love of God; or that Amos, a keeper of sycamore trees in the village of Tekoa, would be the one to redefine God as justice?
- Lacking gloriousness in themselves, they deny gloriousness to all mankind; too cowardly for whimsy and derring-do, they assert whimsy and derring-do ceased at the very latest no later than the middle ages; flickering little tapers themselves, their feeble eyes are dazzled to unseeingness of the flaming conflagrations of other souls that illumine their skies.
- SVILUPPO: According to the Italian wires, the Holy See's message -- as communicated by Lombardi -- included the prayer that God might "illumine" the president-elect, that he might be able "to respond to the expectations and the hopes placed in him, effectively serving justice and right, seeking new paths to promote peace in the world, supporting the growth and dignity of peoples in respect to their human values and spiritual essence."