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Definitions of enlightenment:
  • noun:   education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge
  • noun:   a movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions
  • noun:   (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness



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