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Webster 1913 Edition
Theophany
The-oph′a-ny
,Noun.
pl.
-nies
(#)
. [Gr. [GREEK]; [GREEK] God + [GREEK] to appear.]
A manifestation of God to man by actual appearance, usually as an incarnation.
Definition 2024
theophany
theophany
English
Noun
theophany (plural theophanies)
- A manifestation of a deity to a person.
- 2009, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage 2010, p. 47:
- It was a bewildering theophany, since it was impossible to make out anything clearly in the stormy obscurity of thunder, lightning, smoke and wind.
- 2009, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage 2010, p. 47:
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Translations
a visible manifestation of a deity
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