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epoch-making
[ ep-uhk-mey-kingor, especially British, ee-pok- ]
adjective
- opening a new era, as in human history, thought, or knowledge; epochal:
an epoch-making discovery.
epoch-making
adjective
- of great importance; momentous
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Word History and Origins
Origin of epoch-making1
First recorded in 1870–75
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Example Sentences
This epoch-making invention, introduced in 1832, rendered possible extraordinary developments.
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These opportunities in my case were to be the authorship of an epoch-making novel, or a great drama, or some similar masterpiece.
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Until science made a few epoch-making discoveries the mosquito prevented some of the mightiest works.
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In 1884, by the way, Koch made another epoch-making and beneficent discovery, and isolated the bacillus of cholera.
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The disaster became the great epoch-making event for Jewish history and literature.
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