in light of

English

Etymology

Probably from in the light of.

Pronunciation

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Preposition

in light of

1. (idiomatic, Australia, Canada, US) Given, considering.
   • 2015, Roy Posner, A New Way of Living‎^[1], page 103:

     The United Nations then became the one great attempt to establish a formal institution to unify the world, especially in light of the darkness that preceded it.

   • 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 2:

     In light of such conceptualisations of the power of linguistic landscapes, we set out to examine the connection between the visual landscape and the spoken landscape in our institution[.]

2. (idiomatic) Because of, as a result of.
   • 2024 February 4, “Celine Dion makes SHOCK appearance at Grammys 2024 amid battle with incurable stiff-person syndrome - as she presents historic award to tearful Taylor Swift”, in dailymail.co.uk‎^[2]:

     The star, 55, who has stepped away from her singing career in light of her health woes, was visibly emotional as she walked onstage with the support of eldest son […]

Synonyms

• in view of

Translations

given, considering

• Arabic: عَلَى ضَوْء (ʕalā ḍawʔ)

  Egyptian Arabic: على ضوء (ʕala ḍooʔ)

• Armenian: լույսի ներքո (luysi nerkʻo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 依照 (zh) (yīzhào), 鑒於 / 鉴于 (zh) (jiànyú), 鑑於 / 鉴于 (zh) (jiànyú), 比照 (zh) (bǐzhào)

• Finnish: valossa (fi)
• French: à la lumière de (fr), au vu de (fr)
• German: angesichts (de), in Anbetracht (de), im Hinblick auf (de)
• Hebrew: לאור (l'ór-)
• Italian: alla luce di
• Polish: w świetle
• Portuguese: à luz de, em vista de
• Romanian: în lumina
• Russian: в све́те (ru) (v svéte), в виду́ того́, что (v vidú tovó, što)
• Spanish: en vista de
• Turkish: ışığında, ışığı altında
• Welsh: yn sgil

See also

• bearing in mind
• in lieu of