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What does epiphany mean?

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Noun
  1. A manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being.
  2. An illuminating realization or discovery, often resulting in a personal feeling of elation, awe, or wonder.
  3. (Christianity) Season or time of the Christian church year either from the Epiphany feast day to Shrove Tuesday (the day before Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent) or from the Epiphany feast day to the feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple (see Epiphany).
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I had a sudden epiphany, and slipped my hands nonchalantly into my pockets.
Almost everyone in recovery has an story of an epiphany, the moment they knew they needed to stop using.
In a sudden epiphany, he had remembered that he still had Krillir's guns, silver weapons with eagles engraved on the handles.
Interspersed between such piercing points of pain and disappointment are moments of epiphany.
Their Bildungsromane do not conclude with a state of epiphany, but, like their lives, are choppy, episodic, and nightmarish.
And then you experience some form of traumatic epiphany, and change all those opinions.

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