How to pronounce“enlightened”in English

DEDICATED TO THAT SMALL PORTION OF THE BRITISH PUBLIC WHICH TAKES ENLIGHTENED INTEREST IN STUDYING THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE OLDEN EAST.

But were they in fact Enlightened, or did they remain absolutist despots?

We use the term “Enlightened Monarchs”

But, like some other Enlightened monarchs,

________________ T. C. W. Blanning, Joseph II and Enlightened Despotism 142-144.