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Epochal   /ˈɛpəkəl/   Listen
Epochal

adjective
1.
Highly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era.  Synonym: epoch-making.  "An epoch-making discovery"






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"Epochal" Quotes from Famous Books



... not contained in the Midrash, Josippon, or the biographies of rabbis and zaddikim. He translated Campe's Discovery of the New World, compiled a history of ancient civilization, and narrated the epochal event of the nineteenth century, the conflict between Russia and France. He taught his fellow-Jews to think correctly and logically, to clothe their thoughts in beautiful expressions, and revealed his ...
— The Haskalah Movement in Russia • Jacob S. Raisin

... grew as he played with it. As his spin took on a more complicated character, his zest rose. He went forth on Sunday feeling as if some vital change was impending. His little cruise loomed up large, important, epochal. He laughed at himself and thought, with his customary optimism, that a vacation was worth waiting twelve years for, if waiting endowed it with such a flavor. Jim knew that Aleck would relish the spin, too. Aleck's nature was that of a grind tempered with sportiness. ...
— The Stolen Singer • Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger



Words linked to "Epochal" :   significant, epoch, epoch-making, important



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