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Illume vs Illude - What's the difference?

illume | illude |

As verbs the difference between illume and illude

is that illume is (archaic) to throw or spread light upon; to make light or bright; to illuminate; to illumine while illude is (literary) to delude, fool.

illume

English

Verb

  • (archaic) To throw or spread light upon; to make light or bright; to illuminate; to illumine.
  • * c.1603 , Act I, Scene I.
    • Last night of all,
    When yond same star that's westward from the pole
    Had made his course to illume that part of heaven
    Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself,
    The bell then beating one,--
  • * 1819 , Samuel Mcpherson Janney, The last of the LenapĂ©, and Other Poems'' - ''Electricity :
    • How dread the thunder's peal that rolls above !
    How bright the flashes that illume the sky !
  • * 1915 , Alfred Emanuel Smith, New Outlook (vol. 109):
    • At night there is no light in this building, but searchlights from distant points illume the splendid dome and the colonnades.

    Derived terms

    * unillumed

    illude

    English

    Verb

    (illud)
  • (literary) to delude, fool
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