Aufklärung is the German term for Enlightenment, specifically referring to the historical period of intellectual and cultural flourishing.
Aufklärung is the German word for Enlightenment, referring to the Age of Enlightenment.
| Front | aufklarung \OUF-klay-roong\ |
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| Back | noun 1. Enlightenment. 2. European History. The Enlightenment. [German : auf, up (from Middle High German uf, from Old High German.) + Klarung, a making clear, from klaren, to make clear, from Middle High German klaeren, from klar, clear, from Latin clarus.] "The idea that a profanity, especially one that was used as more than a casual expletive, could be used as a - pardon - legitimate verb was to me something of an Aufklarung, an enlightenment." - Jon Hahn, A Deposit From Mr. Ed Pays Garden Dividends, Seattle Post - Intelligencer, Oct 26, 1999. |
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