transfiguration
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- noun
- /ˌtrænsfɪˈɡjʊreɪʃən/
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transfiguración
- So is each substance ultimately capable of transfiguration.
And you may see subtle hints of this in the Lucan transfiguration narrative because Mark describes the transfiguration as a metamorphosis.
- And you may see subtle hints of this in the Lucan transfiguration narrative because Mark describes the transfiguration as a metamorphosis.
- But what enters it as present as the side of immediacy in existence, is the world which still has to await its transfiguration.
Examples
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The artist's latest painting is a beautiful transfiguration of the landscape, turning ordinary hills into a vibrant scene.
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At night, we also witness transfigurations: the moon over my pink house was an apricot.
Fiction book (1993) -
A second effect is the transfiguration of audience relationships.
Academic text (2003) -
Every demon's different, but they all have their own means of transfiguration.
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Obviously, Easter, another moment of death and transfiguration, transformation here.
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The election signaled a transfiguration.
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Foremost among his many critics is Walter Benjamin, who took him to task for the "transfiguration" of the objects he represented.
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Observer more than alchemist, for I have already found a mystery in my day; I admire the transfiguration of footstep to poetry.
Fiction book (1997) -
Does not the humblest caterpillar symbolize transfiguration?
Fiction book (1991) -
Indeed, Birkin's subsequent transfiguration into an Egyptian Pharaoh may well be read as an extension of this imperial fantasy.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
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A complete change in form or appearance, for example a caterpillar becoming a butterfly
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Changing something into a different form or appearance
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A complete sudden change that makes someone or something very different
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A change of something into a different form
The way something becomes a different form when it is bent, heated, or pressed
Antonyms
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A slow change when something like a building or a person's health becomes worse
Compounds
A church festival on August 6 that remembers when Jesus' face and clothes became bright on a mountain
- Literature
A moment when Jesus shines brightly on a mountain seen by three disciples
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Surface Forms
Morphology
transfiguration = transfigure (transparent) = trans + figure + ation
Formed by adding the productive noun-forming suffix '-ation' to the verb 'transfigure', yielding the action/result; meaning follows directly.
Etymology
Transfiguration comes from the parts trans- ('across' or 'change') and figura ('form' or 'shape'), and the same root is in the common word figure. Picture something moving into a new form—like a plain person becoming a shining hero or a dark mountain turning gold at sunrise—and you have the idea of a full, often beautiful change, which is what transfiguration means.