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epiphanal en · ADJ

Etymology

From epiphany + -al.

Meanings

1. Having the character of an epiphany.
   • Recognizing the frequency of these "epiphanal turning points" and "crises of dedication" in the autobiographies of Central America peace movement leaders raises intriguing questions. 2010, Christian Smith, Resisting Reagan: The U.S. Central America Peace Movement:
   • Some of us, who annunciated this great poet when his epiphanal accents crashed out in Chicago, now look up from the useless pages of Smoke and Steel with a gasp of astonished grief. 1921, Carl Sandburg, “Sandburg: A Psychiatric Curiosity”, in The Dial, volume 70, page 80:
   • But when there is no meeting of the Face of God in Christ alive in the liturgy, and when it is a stiff brocade that shrouds and veils without an epiphanal unveiling to the eye of faith, then we are in real danger of missing our kairos, the plenitude and fullness of our own age. 1958, Hans Ansgar Reinhold, The American Parish and the Roman Liturgy: An Essay in Seven Chapters, page 125:

Forms

Deriveds

epiphanally

Synonyms

epiphanic