0 the act or process of transfiguring someone or something (= changing their appearance very much, especially in a spiritual way): --
The second point states that there is an empirical connection - a causal relationship - between liberation from conventional ego-identification, joyous transfiguration of the moral, and psychophysical transformation.
Moreover, by insisting on tragedy over transfiguration, the final chord paints as tragic not so much anything particular that animates the story, but the story's movement as a whole.
This social transfiguration, accompanied by an industrial decline, is believed to have caused an acute sense of deprivation amongst the city's subordinate social groups.
As a linguistic process, transfiguration can be generative of new meanings, but the figures that are its products can be canonized as inherited truths.
In addition, her gown is not embroidered with shamrocks but with stars, a change that facilitates the transfiguration of the subject.
There was no transfiguration of elite identity nor epiphany of brotherhood.
With their gentle irony, these brief allusions serve primarily to reinforce or remind us of the transfigurations that have preceded them.
Such transfigurations, employing allegory and exotic imagery, epitomize the carefully choreographed spectacle of femininity produced for the male gaze in the aristocratic marriage market.
