Definitions

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  • transitive verb To illumine again or anew; to reillume.

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  • verb transitive To illumine again or anew.

Etymologies

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re- +‎ illumine

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Examples

  • For nature too is a form of art; and a breath of the fresh air or a single glance at the varying landscape would in an instant revive and reillumine the extinguished spark of poetry in the human breast.

    The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

  • A spark, indeed, would be sufficient to reillumine that soul, a recollection crossing that brain to recall reason.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

  • A spark, indeed, would be sufficient to reillumine that soul, a recollection crossing that brain to recall reason.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

  • It was eerie to watch the contour of the arc break, die away into a delicate pallor and reillumine in a travelling riband.

    The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

  • Some years later he returned to the town, but as he remained only a short time, he evidently did not reillumine his first flame.

    The Love Affairs of Great Musicians Hughes, Rupert, 1872-1956 1903

  • The light had burned low in the socket; and who shall reillumine that brief candle when its day is over?

    Vixen, Volume III. 1875

  • For nature too is a form of art; and a breath of the fresh air or a single glance at the varying landscape would in an instant revive and reillumine the extinguished spark of poetry in the human breast.

    The Republic 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

  • His eminent danger filled him with terror, and he receded some paces, but in vain endeavoured to reillumine his torch, which was soaked with water.

    Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity Benjamin Disraeli 1842

  • Her eyes alternately opened upon but shut against the light, and, finally, the exertions of the old man were rewarded as the golden gleam of expression began to relight and reillumine those features which seemed never to be without it.

    Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky William Gilmore Simms 1838

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