Definitions for illumines

illumines il·lu·mine

Spelling: [ih-loo-min]
IPA: /ɪˈlu mɪn/

Illumines is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 249 anagrams from letters in illumines (eiillmnsu).

Definitions for illumines

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to illuminate.

Origin of illumines

1300-50; Middle English illuminen Latin illūmināre to light up, equivalent to il- il-1 + lūmin- (stem of lūmen) light + -ā- thematic vowel + -re infinitive s

Examples for illumines

There is another class of men whose hearts He illumines at once.

Then the picture had suggested only the glory and honor which illumines the page of history.

And it is our conscience that illumines the romantic side of our life.

That flame is the flame which illumines, in the night of exile, the paper on which I now write.

With these he illumines the world in the person of his minister.

Whence then comes the light which illumines it, since it clearly cannot come from the sun?

It illumines the mind, raises the imagination, and warms the heart.

His light at once revivifies a blade of grass and illumines a world.

By night and by day it illumines all, and restores and lightens the heart.

Why not shine like blessed Mithra, who illumines the heavens unmated?

Word Value for illumines
Scrable

11

Words with friends

16

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