epiphanicadj.

/ɛpɪˈfanɪk/

Etymology: < (in epiphany n.²) + -ic suffix.

Of the nature of or characterized by an epiphany; esp. in Literary Theory, constituting or containing a significant moment of revelation.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > [adjective] > of the nature or characterized by an epiphany

epiphanic1951

society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > parts of a written composition > [adjective] > moment of revelation

epiphanic1951

1951 N. 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 N. Frye Romanticism Reconsidered 12 They become temporary or epiphanic myths.

1970 R. Manheim tr. Corbin's Creative Imagination in Ṣūfism of Ibn'Arabi i. 121 Each being is the epiphanic form of his own Lord.

1976 T. Eagleton Crit. & Ideol. 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.

1989 J. Updike Self-consciousness iv. 152 I was spared appendicitis until I was fifty and could make an epiphanic short story out of it.

Derivatives

epiˈphanically adv.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > [adverb] > by means of revelation

revealedly1624

epiphanically1957

society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > parts of a written composition > [adverb] > moment of revelation

epiphanically1957

1957 N. 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.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online December 2019).

单词	epiphanic
释义	epiphanicadj. /ɛpɪˈfanɪk/ Etymology: < (in epiphany n.²) + -ic suffix. Of the nature of or characterized by an epiphany; esp. in Literary Theory, constituting or containing a significant moment of revelation. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > [adjective] > of the nature or characterized by an epiphany epiphanic1951 society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > parts of a written composition > [adjective] > moment of revelation epiphanic1951 1951 N. 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 N. Frye Romanticism Reconsidered 12 They become temporary or epiphanic myths. 1970 R. Manheim tr. Corbin's Creative Imagination in Ṣūfism of Ibn'Arabi i. 121 Each being is the epiphanic form of his own Lord. 1976 T. Eagleton Crit. & Ideol. 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. 1989 J. Updike Self-consciousness iv. 152 I was spared appendicitis until I was fifty and could make an epiphanic short story out of it. Derivatives epiˈphanically adv. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > [adverb] > by means of revelation revealedly1624 epiphanically1957 society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > parts of a written composition > [adverb] > moment of revelation epiphanically1957 1957 N. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < adj.1951
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