Epiphania
Americannoun
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No matter how many times I brought it up, Epiphania always gave the same sad answer in her cadenced, Italian accent: "No, you can't buy it! The house is not on the market!"
From Salon • Jun. 5, 2022
After the Macedonian conquest of Syria Hamath was called Epiphania by the Greeks in honour of Antiochus IV.,
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various
Upon the day of his coronation he celebrated his marriage with the delicate Eudocia, who bore him two children, a daughter, Epiphania, and a son, Heraclius Constantine, the natural successor to the throne.
From Women of Early Christianity by Brittain, Alfred
Epiphania, the Greeke word, which importeth onely the outter appearance of a thing, is here more significant, because of a Magnitude there is nothing visible or to bee seene, but the surface.
From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William
Befana, Beffana, be-f�′na, n. an Epiphany present or gift—a corruption of Epiphania, which name in Italy has become personified for children as a toy-bringing witch or fairy called La Befana.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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