Definition of Illuminist

1. Noun. Someone who subscribes to the doctrine of illuminism, or who claims to have achieved spiritual illumination; one of the Illuminati. ¹

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Definition of Illuminist

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Illuminist

illumination unit
illuminations
illuminative
illuminatively
illuminator
illuminators
illuminatory
illumine
illumined
illuminer
illumines
illuming
illumining
illuminism
illuminisms
illuminist (current term)
illuministic
illuminists
illuminize
illuminized
illuminizes
illuminizing
illuminometer
illuminometers
illuminous
illupi
illupis
illure
illured
illures

Literary usage of Illuminist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers, and Copyists by John William Bradley (1889)
"88, under 1580, Item " Georg Weickmann der illuminist die ... 56 : and " Georg Weichmann der illuminist, Gorg heben- ..."

2. History of Dogma by Adolf von Harnack (1899)
"The " illuminist" of the eleventh and twelfth centuries would still have to be found who did not play his " illuminist" part under the influence of this ..."

3. The Twentieth Century by Caroline Farrar Ware (1908)
"... to the masonic and illuminist societies founded by Saint-Germain and his accomplices within her realm, though later she turned violently against them. ..."

4. A History of Spain: Founded on the Historia de España Y de la Civilización by Charles Edward Chapman (1918)
"... The illuminist and Quietist heresies. though he was, only the efforts of Pope Pius IV saved him. After more than seven years of imprisonment he was ..."

5. Critical Miscellanies by John Morley (1905)
"... the illuminist side of his mind, \ve can never be in much doubt about his meaning, which is not by any means the case with Bonald. ..."

6. Critical Miscellanies by John Morley (1886)
"His style is so marvellously lucid, that, notwithstanding the mystical, or, as he said, the illuminist side of his mind, we can never be in much doubt about ..."

7. A History of Spain, Founded on the Historia de Espana Y de la Civilizacion by Charles Edward Chapman, Rafael Altamira (1918)
"illuminist and Quietist heresies. though he was, only the efforts of Pope Pius IV saved him. After more than seven years of imprisonment he was allowed to ..."

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