epiphany
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9.1
- noun
- /ɪˈpɪfəni/
- Literature
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teofanía
- I had my own religious epiphanies during my studies of geology and botany.
- a religious epiphany
Examples
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Accompanying this epiphany would be a sensation of oneness with a divine universe and a Nirvana-like loss of the individual self.
Academic text (2003) -
This was as close as I'd come to a religious epiphany.
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I had an epiphany that night, and God blessed me.
Blog text (10) -
Either way, an epiphany, where you encounter a goddess or a god, is pretty dangerous business.
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Chauvet turns to the cross to show it as a divine epiphany by which God can be glimpsed in the midst of human suffering.
Academic text (2005) -
In Shakespeare, some characters are vengeful, sad, or suicidal as a result of their epiphanies.
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Scriptures very rarely credit witnesses of Christ's epiphanies with understanding what they saw.
Blog text (32) -
Such is the fear of the women that not even the epiphany of an angel announcing that Jesus had risen could induce them to bring the good news to the disciples.
Academic text (2008) -
In 1991, Akoto had a religious epiphany when he met his soon-to-be wife, Faustina, and entered the Living Faith Centre Pentecostal Church.
Academic text (2004) -
During the meditation, she experienced an epiphany about her life's purpose that felt almost divine.
Synonyms
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6.5
New truth told to people by God or a spirit
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8.6
Knowledge given to people by a god or supernatural power
A message people believe comes from a god or higher power
Compounds
A Christian festival twelve days after Christmas to remember the visit of the wise men to the baby Jesus
How Divine
Surface Forms
Etymology
Epiphany comes from Greek parts epi- ('upon') and phainein ('to show' or 'appear'). Originally it meant a god 'showing up' to people, so an epiphany was a divine appearance.