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Enlightener

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en·light·en  (n-ltn)
tr.v. en·light·ened, en·light·en·ing, en·light·ens
1. To give spiritual or intellectual insight to: "Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppression of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day" Thomas Jefferson.
2. To give information to; inform or instruct.

en·lighten·er n.

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In his view of death as the great teacher and enlightener, Dr.
For Christ is "not a robber of the senses [but] an enlightener of the senses.
Jacob mentions the Whiggish doctrines of Montesquieu but say nothing about the aristocratic and middle-class enlighteners in the three Parisian local lodges during the 1730s.
 
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