epochmaking

Dove, who privately considered it epochmaking, was outwardly very modest.

Maurice Guest 2003

Eugene Fromentin, in his epochmaking study of the arts of the Netherlands, Les Maîtres d'autrefois (1876), begins his account of painting in Holland with a reminder of the surprising fact that there is in Dutch painting "a total absence of what we today call a subject matter… ever since that painting ceased to borrow from Italy her style and her poetics… the great Dutch school seemed to think of nothing but of painting well."

Mysteries of Dutch Painting Gombrich, Ernst 1983

During the last twenty-five years, Martin Ryle has developed new epochmaking telescope constructions and registration principles.

Press Release: The 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics 1974

Immediately after Örsted's epochmaking discovery of the influence of the electric current on a magnetic needle (1820), Ampere, the ingenious French investigator, promulgated a theory explaining magnetic phenomena as results of electrical agencies.

Nobel Prize in Physics 1906 - Presentation Speech 1967

The hypothesis entered a new phase through Charles Darwin's epochmaking work: _ "The Origin of Species."

Evolution An Investigation and a Critique Theodore Graebner 1913

The banquet to M. Berryer and the banquet to Mr. Benjamin, both of them very important, and to my mind epochmaking occasions.

Foreign Words. 1908

Phenomenal, soon, we hope, to perish unregretted, is (at least indirectly, through the abuse of phenomenon) from Metaphysics; immanence, a word often met in singular company, from Comparative Theology; epochmaking perhaps from the Philosophic Historian; true inwardness from Literary Criticism; cad (which is, it appears, Etonian for cadet) from the Upper Classes; psychological moment from Science; thrasonical and cryptic from Academic Circles; philistine from the region of culture.

Slang. 1908

A single word that we have taken in the same way is more defensible, because it did, when first introduced here, possess a definite meaning that no existing English word had: epochmaking is a literal translation, or transliteration almost, from German.

Foreign Words. 1908

We shall observe it in the oratory of Clay and Webster, as they pleaded for compromise; in the editorials of Garrison, a foe to compromise and like Calhoun an advocate, if necessary, of disunion; in the epochmaking novel of Harriet Beecher Stowe; in the speeches of

The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters Bliss Perry 1907

It has been already pointed out, in what has just been said, that as regards this development the centralisation of the cultus was epochmaking.

Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881