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Example sentences for: enlightenment

How can you use “enlightenment” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Dramatic arrangements for doing this are famous--the head-flattening, the neck-lengthening, the tooth-filing, the lip-stretching--all the irreversible ways of completing the human body that were called "barbaric" by restless people bent on scientific understanding, political and intellectual enlightenment, or plain old empire, holy and profane.
•Counter-Reformation and Enlightenment
It is this obsession and lust for knowledge that caused the human condition (suffering, evil, painful childbirth, etc.) in the first place: Eve's craving for enlightenment is what led her to eat from the tree of knowledge, after which God expelled her and Adam from paradise.
A priest or respected family member may place a tika, a dot of red paste, on a worshipper’s forehead, the spot where the beam of enlightenment is thought to emanate from.
Reed called for racial "enlightenment" and predicted, "Bill will try to make that happen."