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Grammar : Verb
Spell : ih-loom
Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈlum



Definition of illume

  • verb illuminate
Example sentences :
  • Three candles that illume every darkness: truth, nature, knowledge.
  • Extract from : « Ancient Irish Poetry » by Various
  • Can one illume a leaden sky,Or tear apart the shadowy veil Thicker than pitch, no star on high,Not one funereal glimmer pale?
  • Extract from : « Baudelaire: His Prose and Poetry » by Charles Baudelaire
  • I admired the condensed wisdom of this, but, like experience, it only serves to illume the path over which I have passed.
  • Extract from : « Adopting An Abandoned Farm » by Kate Sanborn
  • All my faculties tend to self-preservation; there, they converge as rays in a focus; in that focus they illume and—they burn.
  • Extract from : « A Strange Story, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • But, my young friend, it is not the light of the noon-day sun that ought to illume Christian charity.
  • Extract from : « Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XI.--April, 1851--Vol. II. » by Various
  • Even if you have only one light for ten darknesses, it will be enough to illume them all.
  • Extract from : « The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 2 » by Elizabeth Bisland
  • Even so will it be with England; ere ten centuries have rolled away, her sun-like splendour will illume a western world.
  • Extract from : « The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction » by Various
  • Live in the sunshine, don't live in the gloom, Carry some gladness the world to illume.
  • Extract from : « The Optimist's Good Morning » by Florence Hobart Perin

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