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
The Befana's name is obviously derived from Epiphania.
From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Miles, Clement A.
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
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
If one goes further south, into Italy itself, one meets with a similar being, the Befana, whose name is plainly nothing but a corruption of Epiphania.
From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Miles, Clement A.
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