different between illumine vs illuming
illumine
English
Etymology
From Middle French illuminer, from Latin ill?min?re.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??l(j)u?m?n/
Verb
illumine (third-person singular simple present illumines, present participle illumining, simple past and past participle illumined)
- (transitive) To illuminate (something).
- 1789, Ann Ward Radcliffe, The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne, London: T. Hookham, Chapter 9, p. 185,[1]
- The moon shone faintly by intervals, through broken clouds upon the waters, illumining the white foam which burst around, and enlightening the scene sufficiently to render it visible.
- 1890, H. L. Havell (translator), On the Sublime by Longinus (1st century CE), London: Macmillan, Part I, p. 3,[2]
- Skill in invention, lucid arrangement and disposition of facts, are appreciated not by one passage, or by two, but gradually manifest themselves in the general structure of a work; but a sublime thought, if happily timed, illumines an entire subject with the vividness of a lightning-flash, and exhibits the whole power of the orator in a moment of time.
- 2012, Melanie McDonagh, “Where have all the book illustrators gone?” The Independent, 20 January, 2012,[3]
- […] the possibility that illustrations could actually illumine writing and draw out elements of a narrative doesn’t seem to count for much any more.
- 1789, Ann Ward Radcliffe, The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne, London: T. Hookham, Chapter 9, p. 185,[1]
- (intransitive, rare) To light up.
- 1918, Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier, Virago 2014, p. 18:
- ‘Shell-shock.’ Our faces did not illumine so she dragged on lamely. ‘Anyway, he's not well.’
- 1918, Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier, Virago 2014, p. 18:
Translations
Anagrams
- limuline
French
Verb
illumine
- first-person singular present indicative of illuminer
- third-person singular present indicative of illuminer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of illuminer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of illuminer
- second-person singular imperative of illuminer
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illuming
English
Verb
illuming
- present participle of illume
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