religious experience
Americannoun
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a personally transformative event.
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a profound or transcendent experience in which one encounters deity or what is perceived to be divine.
Example Sentences
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The Chapter One gatherings quickly taught me how the long lulls broken up by spurts of passion that I once found a drag were actually as stirring as a religious experience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Those missteps mean this encounter isn’t a religious experience, merely a captivating show—and likely the last chance to see many of these sculptures on American soil.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
We’ve tasted frijol con puerco so good it felt like a religious experience.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2026
But I do have to say that being among the Palace fans at Wembley was honestly the closest thing I've seen to an actual religious experience.
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2025
Their religious experience may have been turbulent and filled with controversies, reforms and revolutions.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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