Definition of Illuminists

1. illuminist [n] - See also: illuminist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Illuminists

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

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, ..."

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