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n. - The act of changing so as to exalt or glorify; A striking change in appearance or character or circumstances.

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  • The transfiguration was a foreview of Christ's glory and Kingdom.
  • This transformation in itself could be called a transfiguration in a biblical sense.
  • It is transformation, transfiguration, that is the fairy-story, be it a divine or a diabolical change.
  • She was beaten down, overwhelmed, freed, as though the transfiguration were her own, from the pitiful barriers of consciousness ....
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