| 单词 | epoch-forming |
| 释义 | > as lemmasepoch-forming [Perhaps after the equivalent compounds in German.] epoch-forming adj.; epoch-making adj. originally said chiefly of scientific discoveries or treatises; now extended to designate any remarkable or sensational event, publication, etc. epoch-marking adj. journalistic alteration of epoch-making. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > worthy of notice specialc1405 eminentc1420 markablec1449 noteworthy1552 regardable1572 respectable1584 of —— observation1587 considerable1589 of (great, little, etc.) mark1590 signal1591 remarkable1593 conspicuous1604 noble1604 observative1608 observable1609 significant1642 noteful1644 signalized1652 tall1655 curious1682 notice-worthy1713 unco1724 noticeable1793 handsome1813 epoch-forming1816 measurable1839 epochal1857 epoch-making1863 era-making1894 epoch-marking1895 high profile1950 landmark1959 1816 S. T. Coleridge Statesman's Man. 17 All the epoch-forming Revolutions of the Christian world. 1863 Athenæum July 9/1 He has produced what the Germans call an epoch-making book. 1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist ii. 64 Epoch-making men..of human history. 1881 W. R. Smith Old Test. in Jewish Church iii. 56 This work of Ezra, and the covenant..were of epoch-making importance. 1895 Westm. Gaz. 15 Jan. 2/2 Every author of an epoch-making or epoch-marking book is liable to pass through two stages. 1919 J. L. Garvin Econ. Found. Peace 272 Consent by the United States to administer Constantinople and the Straits, Armenia and Palestine, would be an epoch-marking step in itself. 1923 Daily Mail 16 Jan. 7 This epoch-marking experiment. 1928 R. Campbell Wayzgoose ii. 59 He produced an epoch-making article. 1940 R. Graves & A. Hodge Long Week-end vi. 93 Most of these inventions, all described as ‘epoch-making’, were never heard of again after the first news-thrill. 1963 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 Jan. 6/2 The evil of the Fulton speech..was not that it was ‘epoch-making’ but that it was ‘epoch-marking’. < as lemmas |
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