enlight

E1N1L1I1G2H4T1

verb

To illuminate.

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Meanings

verbenlight (third-person singular simple present enlights, present participle enlighting, simple past and past participle enlighted or enlit)

present singular third person enlights · participle present enlighting · participle past enlighted · past enlighted · participle past enlit · past enlit

  1. archaictransitiveTo illuminate.

    Let rays of truth enlight his sleeping brain.

    1783, William Blake, An Imitation of Spencer
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    Which from the first has shone on ages past, Enlights the present, and shall warm the last.

    1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC

    Others, whether they be rich or poor, are the guides and lights of the nation, raising its tone, enlighting its difficulties, and improving its ideals.

    1910 July 28, Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell, “The Future of the Human Race”, in Popular Science Monthly

Origin

From en- + light.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

lightenThilgenlething
Cite this entry
APA

enlight. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enlight

MLA

“enlight.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enlight. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “enlight,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enlight.

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