Epiphany

Definition of Epiphany

E`piph´a`ny
n.1.An appearance, or a becoming manifest.
Whom but just before they beheld transfigured and in a glorious epiphany upon the mount.
- Jer. Taylor.
An epic poet, if ever such a difficult birth should make its epiphany in Paris.
- De Quincey.
2.(Eccl.) A church festival celebrated on the 6th of January, the twelfth day after Christmas, in commemoration of the visit of the Magi of the East to Bethlehem, to see and worship the child Jesus; or, as others maintain, to commemorate the appearance of the star to the Magi, symbolizing the manifestation of Christ to the Gentles; Twelfthtide.

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Christophany, Satanophany, afflatus, angelophany, apocalypse, apparition, appearance, appearing, arising, avatar, coming, coming into being, coming-forth, direct communication, discernibleness, disclosure, dissemination, divine inspiration, divine revelation, embodiment, emergence, evidence, evincement, exposure, expression, forthcoming, incarnation, indication, inspiration, issuance, manifestation, materialization, materializing, mystical experience, mysticism, observability, occurrence, opening, outcrop, outcropping, perceptibility, pneumatophany, presentation, proof, prophecy, publication, realization, revelation, rise, rising, seeableness, showing, showing forth, the seen, the visible, theophania, theophany, theopneustia, theopneusty, unfolding, unfoldment, visibility, visibleness, visuality, what is revealed
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