transfiguration
see also: Transfiguration
Noun

transfiguration

  1. A major change in appearance or form; a metamorphosis.
  2. A change that exalts or glorifies.
  3. 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.
Translations
  • Russian: видоизменение
Translations
  • Russian: преображе́ние

Transfiguration
Proper noun
  1. (Christianity) An annual feast day, observed on August 6th (Gregorian) or 19th (Julian), celebrating the miracle when the face of Jesus "shone like the sun" before the apostles.
  2. (Christianity) The miracle itself.



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