transfiguration
- Proper noun. (Christianity) The miraculous event, on a mountain, when the face of Jesus "shone like the sun" before the apostles; the feast commemorating this event – 6 August (or 19 August in the Orthodox church).
- Noun. a large change in appearance or form; a metamorphosis.
- Noun. a change that exalts or glorifies.
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