Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An epoch.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
epoch .
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- noun Archaic form of
epoch .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The second day of July 1776 will be the most memorable epocha in the history of America.
Uh…we might have missed Independence Day « Dating Jesus 2009
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'Nay you are just at the first epocha for marrying from inclination; but you are in the right not to perform so soon the funeral honours of liberty.
Camilla 2008
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There was, in truth, a twofold epocha of the persecution of the apostolical church, namely, both before that apostasy of which we have such frequent mention, and also after it.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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From what epocha, therefore, to date the beginning of it, would seem rashness in us to undertake the determining.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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The year 653 of the Hegira, and the 1255 of Christ, coincide only with the 1557 of the aera or the epocha of the
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To him who knows not the burden of process -- the attributes that are to claim attention with every epocha of the performance -- all attempt at swiftness will be mere pretence.
The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art Cicely Margaret Powell [Editor] Binyon
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When, before the present epocha, had three millions of people full power and a fair opportunity, to form and establish the wisest and happiest government that human wisdom can contrive?
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin
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This year 653 is one of the Hegira, the common epocha of the
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QUOTATION: The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epocha in the history of America.
Quotations 1919
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I was lifted directly into Madame de Vs Coterieand she put off the epocha of deism for two years.
63. Paris 1917
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