| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| theophany |
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| SYLLABICATION: | the·oph·a·ny |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  th - f  -n |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. the·oph·a·nies
An appearance of a god to a human; a divine manifestation. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Medieval Latin theophania, from Late Greek theophaneia : Greek theo-, theo- + Greek phainein, phan-, to show; see bh -1 in Appendix I.
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