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Definition of Illuminations
1. illumination [n] - See also: illumination
Lexicographical Neighbors of Illuminations
Literary usage of Illuminations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Moral tales for young people by Maria Edgeworth (1806)
"THE Illuminations. THE illuminations were really beautiful. He went up to the
Castle, whence he saw a great part of the old town, and all Princes street, ..."
2. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1803)
"Illuminations of the most splendid nature succeeded the ceremonial processions
of the day. The house of the French minister* (Mr. Otto), the bank of England ..."
3. Journals of the Military Expedition of Major General John Sullivan Against by New York (State). Secretary's Office, Frederick Cook (1887)
"FIREWORKS AND Illuminations. In the evening the streets of the village were ...
The illuminations of the night of Centennial day were beyond all praise The ..."
4. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1852)
"... or which are decorated with illuminations. At the beginning of the manuscript
there has been added a table of the order of reading the four Gospels, ..."
5. Annals of the Artists of Spain by Sir William Stirling Maxwell (1891)
"Francisco Galeas, an excellent painter of illuminations, was born in 1567, at
Seville, where he studied ... Painters of illuminations. Fr. Diego de Salto. ..."
6. Lectures: On Illuminating Engineering Delivered at the Johns Hopkins by Johns Hopkins University, Illuminating Engineering Society (1911)
"It is fortunately of considerable influence on the result only when the color
differences are very great or when the illuminations are very feeble. ..."
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