Transfiguration Definition

trăns-fĭgyə-rāshən
noun
A transfiguring or being transfigured.
Webster's New World
The change in the appearance of Jesus on the mountain: Matt. 17
Webster's New World
A change that glorifies or exalts.
American Heritage
The sudden emanation of radiance from the person of Jesus that occurred on a mountain.
American Heritage
A church festival (Aug. 6) commemorating the Transfiguration.
Webster's New World
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(Christianity) The miraculous event, on a mountain, when the face of Jesus "shone like the sun" before the apostles; the feast commemorating this event - 6 August (19 August in the Orthodox church)

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transfiguration
Plural:
transfigurations

Transfiguration Sentence Examples

  • Moreover the end is not conceived as a transfiguration of the world, but as a liberation of the spirit from its unnatural union with the sensual.

  • John and his brother James along with Simon Peter witnessed the transfiguration.

  • It was maintained to be the pure and perfect essence of God Himself, that eternal light which had been manifested to the disciples on Mount Tabor at the transfiguration.

  • Let us build tabernacles here, said Peter, on the mount of transfiguration.

  • With Eliot, verse and syntax co-operate to secure a basic significance and coherent transfiguration of individual meanings.

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