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单词 epoch-forming
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epoch-forming
[Perhaps after the equivalent compounds in German.] epoch-forming adj.; epoch-making adj. originally said chiefly of scientific discoveries or treatises; now extended to designate any remarkable or sensational event, publication, etc. epoch-marking adj. journalistic alteration of epoch-making.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > worthy of notice
specialc1405
eminentc1420
markablec1449
noteworthy1552
regardable1572
respectable1584
of —— observation1587
considerable1589
of (great, little, etc.) mark1590
signal1591
remarkable1593
conspicuous1604
noble1604
observative1608
observable1609
significant1642
noteful1644
signalized1652
tall1655
curious1682
notice-worthy1713
unco1724
noticeable1793
handsome1813
epoch-forming1816
measurable1839
epochal1857
epoch-making1863
era-making1894
epoch-marking1895
high profile1950
landmark1959
1816 S. T. Coleridge Statesman's Man. 17 All the epoch-forming Revolutions of the Christian world.
1863 Athenæum July 9/1 He has produced what the Germans call an epoch-making book.
1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist ii. 64 Epoch-making men..of human history.
1881 W. R. Smith Old Test. in Jewish Church iii. 56 This work of Ezra, and the covenant..were of epoch-making importance.
1895 Westm. Gaz. 15 Jan. 2/2 Every author of an epoch-making or epoch-marking book is liable to pass through two stages.
1919 J. L. Garvin Econ. Found. Peace 272 Consent by the United States to administer Constantinople and the Straits, Armenia and Palestine, would be an epoch-marking step in itself.
1923 Daily Mail 16 Jan. 7 This epoch-marking experiment.
1928 R. Campbell Wayzgoose ii. 59 He produced an epoch-making article.
1940 R. Graves & A. Hodge Long Week-end vi. 93 Most of these inventions, all described as ‘epoch-making’, were never heard of again after the first news-thrill.
1963 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 Jan. 6/2 The evil of the Fulton speech..was not that it was ‘epoch-making’ but that it was ‘epoch-marking’.
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