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unenlightenment

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Noun1.unenlightenment - a lack of understandingunenlightenment - a lack of understanding              
ignorance - the lack of knowledge or education
darkness, dark - an unenlightened state; "he was in the dark concerning their intentions"; "his lectures dispelled the darkness"
enlightenment - education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge
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The language gets lurid; the mood music to pronouncements on complementary medicine is increasingly alarmist - we are living in dangerous times, an unEnlightenment looms as tides of irrationality threaten to overwhelm the palisades erected by science.
It is unscientific to pour wholesale scorn on complementary medicine by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
For if we understand savagery from the perspective of enlightenment rationalism, then it is apparent that it portends a state of unenlightenment where reason is ruled by physical impulses and/or superstition.
Whiteness: naivety, void and control by Andersen, Chris; Hokowhitu, Brendan / Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue
Weeds, painted with Ruskinian carefulness, clamber up the closed door (of course, of the heart) to represent sloth, whilst a bat, signifying unenlightenment, loiters in the turquoise moonshine of the overgrown orchard littered with the apples, them selves fallen, of the Fall of Man.
ILLUMINATED GOSPELS 'SEEING SALVATION' AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY by Bruce, Donald / Contemporary Review
 
 
 
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