Epiphany Definition
Epiph·any (ē pif′ə nē, i-)
noun pl. -·nies
- an appearance or manifestation of a god or other supernatural being
- 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
- a moment of sudden intuitive understanding; flash of insight
- 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·phan′ic (ep′ə fan′ik) 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
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