Crossword-Solution: ECLAIRCISSEMENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Eclaircissement | v. t. | The clearing up of anything which is obscure or not easily understood; an explanation. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “ECLAIRCISSEMENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| CLEARANCE (arch.) | 1 answer |
| EXPLANATION of conduct (arch.) | 1 answer |
| clarification | 25 answers |
| clearance | 72 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ECLAIRCISSEMENT (5)
CHAPTER XXVI AN ECLAIRCISSEMENT The hint which the Chieftain had thrown out respecting Flora was not unpremeditated.
Much which it aspired to do, and did but imperfectly or mistakenly, was accomplished in what is called the eclaircissement of the eighteenth century, or in our own generation; and what really belongs to the rival of the fifteenth century is but the leading instinct, the curiosity, the initiatory idea.
Might it be not otherwise with the imaginative, the intellectual, heat and light; the real need being that of an interpreter--Apollo, illuminant rather as the revealer than as the bringer of light? With large belief that the Eclaircissement, the Aufklaerung (he had already found the name for the thing) would indeed come, he had been in much bewilderment whence and how.
But when it came to the eclaircissement, and the pretty boys, who had been playing the parts of women disguised as men, had to own themselves women, the effect must have been confused if not weakened.
Since Madam d'Epinay was the only person offended, at least in form, I thought it was not for me to strive to bring about an eclaircissement for which she herself did not seem anxious, and I returned as I had come; continuing, besides, to live with her upon the same footing as before, I soon almost entirely forgot the quarrel, and foolishly believed she had done the same, because she seemed not to remember what had passed.