transfiguration

From Middle English transfiguracioun, from Old French transfiguracion, Anglo-Norman transfiguraciun, and Latin transfigūrātio.

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transfiguration (countable and uncountable, plural transfigurations)

1. A major change in appearance or form; a metamorphosis.
2. A change that exalts or glorifies.
3. superposition of one or more ideal-elements in comparison with other real ones, often through imagination but sometimes at the risk of confusing when not clearly realized.

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transfiguration f (plural transfigurations)

1. transfiguration

• “transfiguration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.