illume
/ɪˈluːm/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.40 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Laſt night of all, / When yond ſame Starre that's Weſtward from the Pole / Had made his courſe t’illume that part of Heauen / Where now it burnes, / Marcellus and my ſelfe, / The Bell then beating one."
- "How dread the thunder's peal that rolls above ! How bright the flashes that illume the sky !"
- "Brighter the sun illumed the suburbs, more / Ugly and absolute that shade's reproof […]"
- "At night there is no light in this building, but searchlights from distant points illume the splendid dome and the colonnades."
- "Till lo! at once broad through the gloom, / The lightnings flash’d their dread illume, / Full on a rock by copse embound, / And tore and whirl’d its ruins round; […]"
- "The abdication of belief / Makes the behavior small – / Better an ignis fatuus / Than no illume at all."