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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Epiphany \E*piph"a*ny\, n. [F. ['e]piphanie, L. epiphania, Gr. 'epifa`nia (sc. ?), for 'epifa`neia appearance, fr. 'epifai`nein to show forth; 'epi` + fai`nein to show. See Fancy .] An appearance, or a becoming manifest. Whom but ...
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An epiphany (from the ancient Greek ἐπιφάνεια, epiphaneia , "manifestation, striking appearance") is an experience of sudden and striking realization. Generally the term is used to describe scientific breakthrough, religious or philosophical discoveries, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "festival of the manifestation of Christ to the gentiles" (celebrated Jan. 6; usually with a capital -E- ), from Old French epiphanie , from Late Latin epiphania , neuter plural (taken as feminine singular), from late Greek epiphaneia "manifestation, ...
WordNet
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n. a divine manifestation twelve days after Christmas; celebrates the visit of the three wise men to the infant Jesus [syn: Epiphany of Our Lord , Twelfth day , Three Kings' Day , January 6 ]
Usage examples of epiphany.
The Epiphany can be traced as far back as the second century, among the Basilidian heretics, from whom it may have spread to the Catholic Church.
As the abyssal ascension gave rise to this luminescent benthic epiphany, more and more of the crew crowded to the port side to gape.
Only Don Brujo remained standing, his face aglow with something like epiphany.
My interest in cycles goes back even further than that, to an epiphany I had as a freshman in high school.
As the tide engulfed her magnificent breasts, she stretched her neck to take in one last breath of fetid air, and in a pure ecstasy of terror Katrina Switch slowly commenced her final sadomasochistic epiphany.
He made no immediate move until he touched with his fingers the place where the epiphany of the Tetragrammaton had appeared.
Melissino and I were present at an extraordinary ceremony on the Day of the Epiphany, namely the blessing of the Neva, then covered with five feet of ice.
I should have had this epiphany three weeks ago, when Scotty stopped carpooling with Burke, Manda, and me and started getting rides from a girl named Becky who goes to Eastland.
At the edges of his mind, various realities, epiphanies threatened, poking into the sides of his consciousness like little wasps.
As he did so, whole vast volumes of stars changed from one false colour to another, indicating where this Cluster Epiphany Five Disconnect hegemony had spread its influence.
Peter's Church, where Epiphany married Max Hallstadt in June of 'twenty-six.
Parking her Lexus by, Kate Olmsted reached for her camera, as if reaching for a part of her body, and emerged already snapping--"I had a premonition that this would be one of those radiant moments--an epiphany.
There are snatches of dialog without quotation marks, as if transcribed at white heat lest a series of epiphanies fade.
Maybe some other kid, desperate for something to read, will have an epiphany of his or her own.
An occult doctrine, which saw the continuity of the Revelation not in traditional meditation upon the words of the Prophet but in the very person of the Imam, lord, leader, epiphany of the divine, theophanic reality, King of the World.