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Transfiguration

noun

(Christianity) a church festival held in commemoration of the Transfiguration of Jesus. Synonyms: August 6, Transfiguration Day.

(New Testament) the sudden emanation of radiance from the person of Jesus. Synonym: Transfiguration of Jesus.

A striking change in appearance or character or circumstances. Synonym: metamorphosis.

The act of transforming so as to exalt or glorify.

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"Transfiguration" Quotes from Famous Books

... Assumption by Titian, and the Transfiguration by Raphael," resumed the Countess, who added in Italian, with an accent of enthusiasm: ...

— Cosmopolis, Complete • Paul Bourget

... heard more persons than I can now distinctly recall, observe of Lamb when sleeping, that his countenance in that state assumed an expression almost seraphic, from its intellectual beauty of outline, its childlike simplicity, and its benignity. 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. Much of the change lay in that last process. ...

— Biographical Essays • Thomas de Quincey

... boat alludes to the passage of the Lake when the Saviour quelled the storm. The singular group of emblems in the centre of the figure indicates—the power given to the disciples by the key; the Saviour in his transfiguration, by the sun; and the miraculous multiplication of the five loaves; as narrated in the 9th chapter of St. Luke. The following chapter has its chief contents noted by the scroll indicative of the law; the sword which wounded the traveller from Jerusalem whom ...

— Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places • Frederick William Fairholt

... here than in the world of tone. The musical energy flows entirely from the dramatic conditions, like the electrical current from the cups of the battery; and the rhythmical structure of the melos (tune) is simply the transfiguration of the poetical basis. The poetry, then, is all-important in the music-drama. Wagner has rejected the forms of blank verse and rhyme as utterly unsuited to the lofty purposes of music, and has gone to the metrical principle of ...

— The Great German Composers • George T. Ferris

... for the Train to debouch upon the river-bank—so as to take a few shots at the outfit. Every one expected this, but just as the Train broke out of the gorge into the open, at the edge of the river-bed—there was a great sucking transfiguration from the shallows, a hideous sort of ...

— Fate Knocks at the Door - A Novel • Will Levington Comfort

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