Lexicographical Neighbors of Illuminists
Literary usage of Illuminists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Influences of Democracy on Liberty, Property, and the Happiness of by Fisher Ames (1835)
"THE illuminists. REFORMERS make nothing of old establishments, of interests that
have taken root for ages, and of prejudices, habits, and relations, ..."
2. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Charles John Abbey, John Henry Overton (1878)
"If he was dissatisfied with the coarse criticism of the illuminists, why did he
lend the authority of his great name to some of the coarsest, by publishing ..."
3. The Individual and Reality: An Essay Touching the First Principles of by Edward Douglas Fawcett (1909)
"... illuminists, not merely in desire, but also in fact. But confining, as we
must, our outlook to history and historical names, we find nothing in ..."
4. Illuminated Manuscripts by John William Bradley (1909)
"... in the sixteenth century the clever practitioners who wished, in bright colours,
to awaken up the old wood-cuts used to call themselves illuminists, ..."