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 an angel to a human being.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek

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Examples

  • 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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