highlit

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A form of highlight — An area or a spot in a drawing, painting, or photograph that is strongly illuminated.

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Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastuncommonsimple past and past participle of highlight; highlighted.

    I want to focus on an aspect highlit by Denis Donoghue when he reviewed it in the London Review of Books.

    1998, Charles Townshend, “The meaning of Irish freedom constitutionalism in the Free State”, in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
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    The potential precariousness of the alliance is highlit by the catastrophe of its abrupt ending in the next generation, after the deaths of the two principals.

    1967, Alexander C. Soper, “A pictorial biography of Prince Shotoku”, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin
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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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