Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of illumine
nounillumining (plural illuminings)
plural illuminings
- illumination
And through the rose-coloured atmosphere / All things more lovely and bright appear, / Losing the faintness of earthly things, / And shining with heaven's illuminings.
1850, Walter Richard Cassels, “Ode To Fancy”, in Eidolon, or the Course of a Soul; and other poems
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