transfiguration

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a complete change of form or appearance into a more beautiful or exalted state

   The sunset's transfiguration of the dull hills left the travellers speechless.

From Latin trānsfigūrātiō(n-) ('a transformation'), from trānsfigūrāre ('to change in shape'), from trāns ('across') + figūra ('shape, form').

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