Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The visible manifestation of an angel or angels to man.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The actual appearance of an angel to man.
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- noun The
appearance of anangel to ahuman being .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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Examples
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The stories of almsgiving, burial of the dead, angelophany, exorcism, marriage of Sara with Tobias the younger, cure of the elder Tobias = = all these incidents were taken for granted as fact-narrative; nor was there ever any question of likening them to the tales of "The Arabian Nights" and the "Fables of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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