transfiguration
noun14th century{ds||1|a|}
- a change in form or appearance : metamorphosis
- an exalting, glorifying, or spiritual change
- a Christian feast that commemorates the transfiguration of Christ on a mountaintop in the presence of three disciples and that is observed on August 6 in the Roman Catholic and some Eastern churches and on the Sunday before Lent in most Protestant churches
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