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enlighting

enlighting is the present participle and gerund of enlight.

Meaning of enlight

Verb

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

  1. (archaic, transitive) To illuminate.
    • 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

Questions about enlighting

What is enlighting the present participle and gerund of?
Enlighting is the present participle and gerund of enlight.

Words near enlighting in the dictionary

  1. enlightening
  2. enlighteningly
  3. enlightenment
  4. enlightenments
  5. enlightens
  6. enlighting
  7. enlightment
  8. enlightments
  9. enlights
  10. Enlil
  11. enlimn

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