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epiphany2|ɪˈpɪfənɪ|
[ad. Gr. ἐπιϕάνεια manifestation, striking appearance, esp. an appearance of a divinity (in N.T. applied to the advent or ‘appearing’ of Christ), f. ἐπιϕανής manifest, conspicuous, related to ἐπιϕαίνειν: see prec.]
1. A manifestation or appearance of some divine or superhuman being.
a1667Jer. Taylor Serm. III. ix. (R.), Him..they beheld transfigured, and in a glorious epiphany on the mount. 1677Gale Crt. Gentiles II. iii. 193 The Grecians in commemoration of these epiphanies or apparitions of their gods instituted certain Festival-dayes. 1826E. Irving Babylon II. vi. 121 The second coming of Christ; the glorious Epiphany of God our Saviour. 1847Grote Greece ii. xxx. (1849) IV. 141 Probably all..sincerely believed in the epiphany of the goddess. 1870F. Hall in Wilson tr. Vishṅu-puráṅa v. 3 The first definition of Hayagríva makes him an epiphany of Vishṅu. 1879Farrar St. Paul I. 164 Transported beyond all thought of peril by that divine epiphany, he [Stephen] exclaimed, etc.
2. transf. and fig.
1840–1De Quincey Style Wks. XI. 257 There had been two manifestations or bright epiphanies of the Grecian intellect. 1881Blackie Lay Serm. v. 186 The statesman has yet to make his epiphany who, etc. |