epiphany
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1. epiphany - Noun
2. Epiphany - Proper noun
Meaning
An appearance, or a becoming manifest.
A church festival celebrated on the 6th of January, the twelfth day after Christmas, in commemoration of the visit of the Magi of the East to Bethlehem, to see and worship the child Jesus; or, as others maintain, to commemorate the appearance of the star to the Magi, symbolizing the manifestation of Christ to the Gentles; Twelfthtide.
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Apparently, there was a second epiphany to expand from a podcast to a “full blown organization.”
Even innocent eavesdropping could trigger an epiphany which could soften or change your stance on a particular issue.
According to Mielke, both he and the Google co-founders have had an epiphany: “The computer revolution was really exciting, but ultimately it’s the human source code that matters and that’s the human genome, the code that powers all of us.”
His "Schmolsiner Perikopen", most of which is written in the same Polish-Kashubian style as Krofey's and Brüggemann's books, also contain small passages ("6th Sunday after Epiphany") written in pure Kashubian.
After my epiphany at the bar, I felt more alone than ever, but also more determined to be intentional about my friendships and what I had to offer a community.
He was a contemporary of Ted Nelson at Swarthmore, and he scored Nelson's experimental film, The Epiphany of Slocum Furlow.