How to Use the Enlightenment in a Sentence

the Enlightenment

noun

• The pictures ranged from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment.
  — Ian Malone, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2023
• But the Enlightenment, by way of John Locke, made illustrations more acceptable in the classroom.
  — JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
• Not just as an investment, but with a bit of idealism: To continue the tradition of the Enlightenment.
  — Marcel Fürstenau, Sun Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2024
• Not only were they tied to the Enlightenment, in that they were said to provide equal opportunities to their initiates, but their elections embodied the ideals of the era.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2024
• In Ukraine, two of the greatest movements in Jewish history took place: the Enlightenment and Hasidism, both movements that were reflected in their music.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Feb. 2023
• But rather the Enlightenment approach—incentivizing the smartest members of civilization to keep an eye on each other, on our behalf.
  — WIRED, 6 July 2023
• The late eighteenth century witnessed the pinnacle of the Enlightenment in Europe, before the continent descended into the hell of the Napoleonic Wars.
  — Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 14 Feb. 2022
• German Jews, who were emancipated at the tail end of the Enlightenment period and throughout the Romantic era, took to Bildung almost as a new faith, or the natural development of the old one.
  — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
• But most shared one common feature: a rejection of the fundamental principles of the Enlightenment.
  — Ervand Abrahamian, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2016
• Whereas Eliot knows enough about the Enlightenment’s major and minor figures, for instance, to deftly parody the bumbling uncle who has read them but shallowly.
  — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
• That shift was conceived and realized with the Enlightenment and then the Industrial Revolution.
  — Martin Wolf, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2015
• As the Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant foresaw in the late eighteenth century, the result has been a seemingly perpetual peace heretofore unknown to Europe.
  — John Maynard Keynes, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
• Protections for academic freedom in medieval times helped pave the way for a flourishing of individual liberties in the Renaissance and the Enlightenment.
  — Bradford Vivian / Made By History, TIME, 16 Aug. 2024
• Romantic literature isn’t all love stories; the cohort rejected the cold reason and empiricism of the Enlightenment in favor of the irrational, the supernatural, the emotional, and the deeply subjective.
  — Judy Berman, TIME, 1 July 2024
• There is an old assumption that belief in magic faded away in the Enlightenment, shepherding a new age dominated by rational decision-making and scientific progress.
  — Tabitha Stanmore, TIME, 24 May 2024
• It was established by eighteenth-century polymaths as an expression of the Enlightenment conviction that universal truths might be arrived at through intellectual inquiry and scientific reason.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
• Classical learning involves chronologically studying literature, philosophy, history and science from the ancient Greeks and Romans through the Enlightenment period.
  — Luke Fountain, Charlotte Observer, 22 June 2024

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024