transfiguration
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They, who should have cheered and heartened Him to face the terrible prospect, were hindrances, were an additional burden and anxiety to Him Now, it is to this conversation that the incident known as the transfiguration is linked by all the evangelists who relate it--the first three.
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- noun A marked change in form or appearance; a metamorphosis.
- noun A change that glorifies or exalts.
- noun Bible The sudden emanation of radiance from the person of Jesus that occurred on a mountain.
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They, who should have cheered and heartened Him to face the terrible prospect, were hindrances, were an additional burden and anxiety to Him Now, it is to this conversation that the incident known as the transfiguration is linked by all the evangelists who relate it--the first three.
— How to become like Christ -
She was beaten down, overwhelmed, freed, as though the transfiguration were her own, from the pitiful barriers of consciousness Was the concert good?"
— The Bent Twig -
(2) Whether the clarity of the transfiguration was the clarity of glory?
— Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition -
Now, it is to this conversation that the incident known as the transfiguration is linked by all the evangelists who relate it -- the first three.
— How to become like Christ -
She was beaten down, overwhelmed, freed, as though the transfiguration were her own, from the pitiful barriers of consciousness ....
— The Bent Twig
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- from French transfiguration =Provencal transfiguratio =Spanish transfiguracio =Portuguese transfiguração =Italian transfigurazione, from Latin transfiguratio (n-), a change of form, from transfigurare, transfigure: see transfigure.
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/ (trăns-fĭgˌyə-rāˈshən)/
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