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enlightenment

English

  1. 🔊 education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge
  2. 🔊 a movement in Europe from about 1650 until 1800 that advocated the use of reason and individualism instead of tradition and established doctrine
    “the Enlightenment brought about many humanitarian reforms”
  3. 🔊 (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation

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