éclaircissement

[ ey-kler-sees-mahn ]

noun

, French.

, plural é·clair·cisse·ments [ey-kle, r, -sees-, mahn].

1. clarification; explanation.
2. (initial capital letter) the Enlightenment.

Example Sentences

Poor must be the attempt to describe his emotions at that moment: he flew to raise her, and on her revival an eclaircissement, dreadful indeed to him, took place.

From Project Gutenberg

That it is a received law among the fishermen, that whoever arrives first shall have his choice of the stations; that the Duc de Nivernois insisted, that by the Treaty of Utrecht, the French had an exclusive right to the fishery, from Cape Bonavista to Point Riche; that the King gave to his Grace, the Duke of Bedford, express instructions to come to an eclaircissement upon the point with the French Ministry, and to refuse the exclusive construction of the Treaty of Utrecht.

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Randal, dreading a further and plainer éclaircissement, now rose, and saying, “Pardon me, but I must hurry over breakfast, and be back in time to catch the coach”—offered his arm to his hostess, and led her into the breakfast-parlor.

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Another probable coadjutor was John Palsgrave, author of the Eclaircissement.

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The Eclaircissement de la langue Françoise, by John Palsgrave, 1530, and the Introductory to learn, pronounce, and speak the French tongue, by Giles Du Wes or Dewes, written some years later for the use of the Princess Mary in the same way as Linacre’s Latin Grammar had been, are sufficiently familiar from their reproduction in modern times under the auspices of the French Government.

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