Transfiguration

Word TRANSFIGURATION
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Definitions and meanings of "Transfiguration"

What do we mean by transfiguration?

A marked change in form or appearance; a metamorphosis. noun

A change that glorifies or exalts. noun

The sudden emanation of radiance from the person of Jesus that occurred on a mountain. noun

The Christian feast commemorating this event, observed on August 6 in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Orthodox churches and on the Sunday before Lent in most Protestant churches. noun

Change of form or appearance; particularly, the change in the personal appearance of Christ, in the presence of three of his disciples (Peter, James, and John), described in Mat. xvii. 1–9; hence, some similar transformation. noun

A festival observed in the Greek, the Roman Catholic, and the Anglican Churches on August 6th, in commemoration of Christ's transfiguration. noun

A large change in appearance or form; a metamorphosis noun

A change that exalts or glorifies noun

The act of transforming so as to exalt or glorify noun

(New Testament) the sudden emanation of radiance from the person of Jesus noun

(Christianity) a church festival held in commemoration of the Transfiguration of Jesus noun

A striking change in appearance or character or circumstances noun

A major change in appearance or form; a metamorphosis.

A change that exalts or glorifies.

Superposition of one or more ideal-elements in comparison with other real ones, often through imagination but sometimes at the risk of confusing when not clearly realized.

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The word "transfiguration" in example sentences

The transfiguration is a feast which originated in the Eastern Church, becoming widely observed by the end of the first millennium. ❋ Fr Timothy Matkin (2006)

_I answer that, _ The clarity which Christ assumed in His transfiguration was the clarity of glory as to its essence, but not as to its mode of being. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

She was beaten down, overwhelmed, freed, as though the transfiguration were her own, from the pitiful barriers of consciousness .... ❋ Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1918)

It is transformation, transfiguration, that is the fairy-story, be it a divine or a diabolical change. ❋ Vachel Lindsay (1905)

He stood against a background where the Creator had opened out the universe; a spiritual influence went out from him; his sufferings were adopted as an example, and his transfiguration was the pledge of ever-lastingness. ❋ Kuno Francke (1892)

Now, it is to this conversation that the incident known as the transfiguration is linked by all the evangelists who relate it -- the first three. ❋ Marcus Dods (1871)

In like manner in the transfiguration, which is the sacrament of the second regeneration, the whole Trinity appeared; the Father in the voice, the Son in the man, and the Holy Spirit in the cloud. ❋ 1225?-1274 (1842)

It could not be called a transfiguration that sleep had worked in his face; for the features wore essentially the same expression when waking; but sleep spiritualized that expression, exalted it, and also harmonized it. ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)

The moment I've previously called transfiguration is tantamount to the sexual release Hitchcock obtained by controlling and commanding the beautiful women he could never possess sexually in real life. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And then they talked with Christ of his death at that time when he was in the greatest height of glory, that ever he admitted in this world, that is, his transfiguration. ❋ John Donne (1601)

The transfiguration was a foreview of Christ's glory and Kingdom. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This transformation in itself could be called a transfiguration in a biblical sense. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In such a way it's part of the whole dispensation by which grace is transmitted to the praying person so as to generate the same kind of transfiguration of the passions that holy people experience on the way to that final condition of contemplative liberty where the world of instinct and reaction is, for all practical purposes, done away with. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But, I pray, what kind of transfiguration of the passages is this which causes hunger and thirst? ❋ Unknown (2004)

You have seen a transfiguration which is the half-way state of materialization. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1926)

It has already been remarked that such 'transfiguration' is not wholly supernatural. ❋ Thomas Kelly Cheyne (1878)

Stephen found himself staring at a kind of transfiguration, back from the ghostly to the human. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

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