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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

... M. Bouguereau is significant rather than insipid. Lebrun was assuredly not a strikingly original painter. His crowds of warriors bear a much closer resemblance to Raphael's "Battle of Constantine and Maxentius" than the "Transfiguration" of the Vatican does to Giotto's, aside from the important circumstance that the difference in the latter instance shows development, while the former illustrates mainly an enfeebled variation. But there is unquestionably something of Lebrun in Lebrun's ...

— French Art - Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture • W. C. Brownell

... announced himself to all whom it might concern, and allowed the ladies two days to discuss the merit of his transfiguration, together with the novelty of the case, he ventured to salute, at a distance, a lady and her daughter, who had been his patients at the hot well; and, although they honoured his bow with the return ...

— The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom, Complete • Tobias Smollett

... has been treating the Lord of the universe as 'friend and fellow-mortal.' He humbly begs Krishna's pardon, but his awe soon leaves him. Again, he has forgotten. We may infer the same relationship between Jesus and his disciples after the vision of the transfiguration.' (The Song of ...

— The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry • W. G. Archer

... East Twenty-ninth Street, is the rambling old Church of the Transfiguration, loved by all true New Yorkers irrespective of creed, under the name of the "Little Church Around the Corner." From it the actors Wallack, Booth, and Boucicault were buried, and in it is the memorial window to Edwin Booth, ...

— Fifth Avenue • Arthur Bartlett Maurice

... photographers, but the treatment was that of a great artist. The soul of a nation was there —which is always so much greater than the soul of an individual. The drawings were not of men and women, but of one of the world's greatest races at the moment of its transfiguration. ...

— The Nest Builder • Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale

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