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Epiphany Definition

Epiph·any (ē pifə nē, i-)

noun pl. -·nies

  1. an appearance or manifestation of a god or other supernatural being
  2. in many Christian churches, a yearly festival, held January 6, commemorating both the revealing of Jesus as the Christ to the Gentiles in the persons of the Magi and the baptism of Jesus
    1. a moment of sudden intuitive understanding; flash of insight
    2. a scene, experience, etc. that occasions such a moment

Etymology: ME & OFr epiphanie < LL(Ec) epiphania < Gr(Ec) epiphaneia, appearance < epiphainein, to show forth, manifest < epi-, upon + phainein, to show: see fantasy

Epiphany Related Forms

ep′i·phanic (ep′ə fanik) adjective

Epiphany Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • sort: The program's return in 1996, however, was an epiphany of sorts.
  • life: Doisneau's gift was the ability to seek out and capture, with humanity and grace, those little epiphanies of everyday Parisian life.

Converse of object

  • experience: In the first grade, I experienced an epiphany of sorts.
  • have: Then one day, I had an epiphany, " Why not e-mail my women friends back home?
  • record: In addition Joyce records some dream epiphanies, which are purely imaginary.
  • follow: Her everyday reportage seems to consist of joyful epiphanies followed by periods of self-doubt and isolation.
  • reach: But how does Huck reach this epiphany and who did Twain base his character on?
  • mean: The word " parousia " really means an epiphany of God.

Preposition: at

moment: Chinese film is enjoying something of a Western epiphany at the moment.

Adjective modifier

  • personal: Like all great records, the seeds of BAPTISM came from personal epiphany.
  • own: Then at 18 she had her own very real epiphany to deal with: a first child.
  • religious: A spiritual drug odyssey seeking religious epiphany, a thing which many people believed in at that time.
  • musical: In fact I've had some moments of musical epiphany on the dance floor to those funky house tracks.
  • new: A ' new epiphany ' will not just happen by itself.
  • little: Doisneau's gift was the ability to seek out and capture, with humanity and grace, those little epiphanies of everyday Parisian life.

Modifies a noun

  • ball: What do you think about perhaps having a separate ceremony than the epiphany ball for colors?
  • software: Epiphany software for units emerged customer with them the you chooseeditor's note.
  • trial: David Goodwin [ Wolves ] Dave how goes your epiphany trial?

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