transfiguration

IPA: trænsfˈɪgjɝˈeɪʃʌn

A major change in appearance or form; a metamorphosis.
A change that exalts or glorifies.
superposition of one or more ideal-elements in comparison with other real ones, often through imagination but sometimes at the risk of confusing when not clearly realized.
(Christianity) An annual feast day, observed on August 6th (Gregorian) or 19th (Julian), celebrating the miracle when the face of Jesus "shone like the sun" before the apostles.
(Christianity) The miracle itself.

Examples of "transfiguration" in Sentences

It is transformation, transfiguration, that is the fairy-story, be it a divine or a diabolical change.
The transfiguration is a feast which originated in the Eastern Church, becoming widely observed by the end of the first millennium.
She was beaten down, overwhelmed, freed, as though the transfiguration were her own, from the pitiful barriers of consciousness ....
Now, it is to this conversation that the incident known as the transfiguration is linked by all the evangelists who relate it -- the first three.
_I answer that, _ The clarity which Christ assumed in His transfiguration was the clarity of glory as to its essence, but not as to its mode of being.
In like manner in the transfiguration, which is the sacrament of the second regeneration, the whole Trinity appeared; the Father in the voice, the Son in the man, and the Holy Spirit in the cloud.
The moment I've previously called transfiguration is tantamount to the sexual release Hitchcock obtained by controlling and commanding the beautiful women he could never possess sexually in real life.
It could not be called a transfiguration that sleep had worked in his face; for the features wore essentially the same expression when waking; but sleep spiritualized that expression, exalted it, and also harmonized it.
He stood against a background where the Creator had opened out the universe; a spiritual influence went out from him; his sufferings were adopted as an example, and his transfiguration was the pledge of ever-lastingness.