Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The visible manifestation of an angel or angels to man.
Wiktionary
- n. The appearance of an angel to a human being.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The actual appearance of an angel to man.
Etymologies
- Ancient Greek (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The stories of almsgiving, burial of the dead, angelophany, exorcism, marriage of Sara with Tobias the younger, cure of the elder Tobias = = all these incidents were taken for granted as fact-narrative; nor was there ever any question of likening them to the tales of "The Arabian Nights" and the "Fables of”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘angelophany’.
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angel phrases/words
how angel is used
angel appearance, angel-beast, angel-bed, angel-borne, angel-bread, angel-bright, angel-builded, angel-cake, angel choir, angel-cornice, angel dust, angel-evening and 81 more...
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difficult words
ordure, tatterwallop, callipygian, odious, colophon, cynosure, hardener, emollience, valetudinarian, demonym, volage, polysemantic and 260 more...
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five syllables
ontogenesis, phylogenesis, concatenation, androgenesis, extra textual, inexorably, spagyrically, apophenia, iatrochemist, monocotyloid, morphological, parthenogenic and 941 more...
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1402 more...
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Words of the Day
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casi's list
The smearing of twigs with lime to catch birds; bird-liming.
liming, euphuism, injudiciousness, serendipper, cloud-built, angelophany, elucidate, adoxography, panjandrum
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