1. illumination - Noun
2. illumination - Verb
The act of illuminating, or supplying with light; the state of being illuminated.
Festive decoration of houses or buildings with lights.
Adornment of books and manuscripts with colored illustrations. See Illuminate, v. t., 3.
That which is illuminated, as a house; also, an ornamented book or manuscript.
That which illuminates or gives light; brightness; splendor; especially, intellectual light or knowledge.
The special communication of knowledge to the mind by God; inspiration.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe prime objective of all Initiatory music in the Temples of Antiquity was to bring about physical purification and renewal, mental stimulation and alertness, spiritual exhilaration and Illumination. Ambrose
Illumination by the Spirit is the endless end of every virtue. Symeon the New Theologian
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. Anaïs Nin
An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination. Andrew Lang
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. John Adams
In an instant illumination can be achieved, it is as easy as turning on a light, the problem is finding the switch in the dark. Moroccan Proverb