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epiphanic, a.|ɛpɪˈfænɪk|
[f. epiphany n.2 + -ic.]
Of the nature of or characterized by an epiphany; esp. in Lit. Theory, constituting or containing a significant moment of revelation.
1951N. Frye in Kenyon Rev. XIII. 103 Patterns of imagery, on the other hand, or fragments of significance, are oracular in origin, and derive from the epiphanic moment, the flash of instantaneous comprehension with no direct reference to time. 1963― Romanticism Reconsidered 12 They become temporary or epiphanic myths. 1970R. Manheim tr. Corbin's Creative Imagination in Ṣūfism of Ibn'Arabi i. 121 Each being is the epiphanic form of his own Lord. 1976T. Eagleton Crit. & Ideology iii. 94 A work like The Prelude..in which an organicist evolutionary ideology is ruptured by starkly epiphanic ‘spots of time’, recalcitrant material which refuses to be absorbed. 1989J. Updike Self-Consciousness iv. 152, I was spared appendicitis until I was fifty and could make an epiphanic short story out of it.
Hence epiˈphanically adv.
1957N. Frye Anat. Crit. 321 In the traditional epic the gods affect the action from a continuous present: Athene and Venus appear epiphanically, on definite occasions, to illuminate or cheer the hero. |