Difference between Illuminate and Illume

What is the difference between Illuminate and Illume?

Illuminate as a verb is to shine light on something while Illume as a verb is to throw or spread light upon; to make light or bright; to illuminate; to illumine.

Illuminate

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Someone thought to have an unusual degree of enlightenment.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to shine light on something to decorate something with lights to clarify or make something understandable to decorate the page of a manuscript book with ornamental designs to glow to be exposed to light

Example sentence: The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

Illume

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To throw or spread light upon; to make light or bright; to illuminate; to illumine.

We hope you now know whether to use Illuminate or Illume in your sentence.

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