Enlightenment: alternatives and connections

The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the R. C. Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased p…

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Felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss.

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The state of being blessed; happiness; felicity; bliss; heavenly joys; the favor of God.

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The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act o…

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The act of edifying, or the state of being edified; a building up, especially in a moral or spiritual sense; moral, intellectual, or spiritual improv…

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The act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the sophistication of drugs.

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To build; to construct.

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To build; to construct.

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In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils…

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