The Collaborative International Dictionary
Enlightener \En*light"en*er\, n. One who enlightens or illuminates; one who, or that which, communicates light to the eye, or clear views to the mind.
Wiktionary
n. One who, or that which, enlightens.
Usage examples of "enlightener".
A bodhisattva who symbolises the wisdom aspect of mind, and is greatly revered in Lamaist Buddhism as the Enlightener of the World.
And he appointed the shamans as leaders and enlighteners of the people.
But as it is in no way proved that the aim of humanity does consist in freedom, equality, enlightenment, or civilization, and as the connection of the people with the rulers and enlighteners of humanity is only based on the arbitrary assumption that the collective will of the people is always transferred to the men whom we have noticed, it happens that the activity of the millions who migrate, burn houses, abandon agriculture, and destroy one another never is expressed in the account of the activity of some dozen people who did not burn houses, practice agriculture, or slay their fellow creatures.