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enlumining

enlumining is the present participle and gerund of enlumine.

Meaning of enlumine

Verb

enlumine (third-person singular simple present enlumines, present participle enlumining, simple past and past participle enlumined)

  1. (obsolete) To illumine; to light up.
    • Ne is that ſame great glorious lampe of light, / That doth enlumine all theſe leſſer fyres, / In better caſe, […]1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Prologue”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 7, page 185

Questions about enlumining

What is enlumining the present participle and gerund of?
Enlumining is the present participle and gerund of enlumine.

Words near enlumining in the dictionary

  1. Enlow
  2. Enlows
  3. enlumine
  4. enlumined
  5. enlumines
  6. enlumining
  7. enm
  8. Enma
  9. Enman
  10. Enmans
  11. enmarble

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