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Definition of Lighteners
1. lightener [n] - See also: lightener
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lighteners
Literary usage of Lighteners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1841)
"... the affected indifference and real alarm with which the mention of religion
is received by those empirical en- lighteners of the 19th century. ..."
2. King Arthur by Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1851)
"... as ranking among the true en- lighteners of men—such the teachers who (we may
suppose to have) instructed the mystical Pythagoras; and furnished new ..."
3. English Literature by Wilford Merton Aikin, Thomas Ernest Rankin (1917)
"... still earnestly working to place the American theater and the American drama
upon a high level as teachers and as lighteners of the burdens of our life. ..."
4. The Westminster Review by John Chapman, Charles William Wason (1825)
"But it must also be a public school and an university ; for it is forgotten how
many men, the en- lighteners of their age in literature, science, and art, ..."
5. Genetics and Eugenics: A Text-book for Students of Biology and a Reference by William Ernest Castle, Gregor Mendel (1916)
"Seven of the eight modifying factors act as diluters or lighteners of unmodified
eosin, one only acting as a dark- ener. They are in the order of their ..."
6. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1854)
"Instead of being hindrances, they would prove helps and lighteners of my pleasant
labors, as well as happy participante my enjoyments,—aud good things ..."
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