Sentence example with the word 'transfigure'

transfigure

acculturate, better, civilize, educate, enlighten, forward, improve upon, meliorate, nurture, reform, translate, transubstantiate

Definition v. elevate or idealize

Last update: May 19, 2017

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Her countenance transfigured with the arrival of the guests.   [noun]

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Next year the great tragic poem of Torquemada came forth to bear witness that the hand which wrote Ruy Blas had lost nothing of its godlike power and its matchless cunning, if the author of Le Roi s'amuse had ceased to care much about coherence of construction from the theatrical point of view as compared with the perfection of a tragedy designed for the devotion of students not unworthy or incapable of the study; that his command of pity and terror, his powers of intuition and invention, had never been more absolute and more sublime; and that his infinite and illimitable charity of imagination could transfigure even the most monstrous historic representative of Christian or Catholic diabolatry into the likeness of a terribly benevolent and a tragically magnificent monomaniac. Two years later Victor Hugo published the third and concluding series of La Legende des siecles.   [verb]

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A flood of brilliant, joyful light poured from her transfigured face.   [verb]

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She seemed transfigured.   [verb]

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She stood up, white as her gown, transfigured, very serious.   [verb]

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The old oak, quite transfigured, spreading out a canopy of sappy dark-green foliage, stood rapt and slightly trembling in the rays of the evening sun.   [verb]

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The convict was transfigured into Christ.   [verb]

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It was an exquisite candor expanding and becoming transfigured in the light.   [verb]

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Cosette, as she took her flight, winged and transfigured, left behind her on the earth her hideous and empty chrysalis, Jean Valjean.   [verb]

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He was less the man transfigured than the victim of this prodigy.   [verb]

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The immense gleam of the whole combat which he had missed, and in which he had had no part, appeared in the brilliant glance of the transfigured drunken man.   [verb]

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