Definition of Epoch-making

1. Adjective. Highly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era. "An epoch-making discovery"

Exact synonyms: Epochal
Similar to: Important, Significant
Derivative terms: Epoch

Definition of Epoch-making

1. Adjective. Constituting an epoch; opening a new era; introducing new conceptions or a new method in the treatment of a subject. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Epoch-making

epizootic lymphangitis
epizootically
epizootics
epizooties
epizootiologic
epizootiologies
epizootiology
epizooty
epizudic
epkwele
eplerenone
eplivanserin
epluchage
epn
epoch
epoch-making (current term)
epocha
epochal
epochally
epochas
epoche
epochs
epode
epodes
epodic
epoetin
epoetin alfa
epoetins
epogen
epomania

Literary usage of Epoch-making

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"The work marks the transition from the era of Montaigne to that of Corneille; and as such may, to some extent, be considered epoch-making. ..."

2. The Constitutional History of the United States, 1765-1895 by Francis Newton Thorpe (1898)
"Hard work and isolation made thinking a habit—whence the age bred men of limited reading, but of epoch-making ideas, and of these Lincoln was easily ..."

3. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1904)
"An epoch-making Work of Scientific Travel The Results of the Harriman ALASKA " A ... Epochmaking ..."

4. English Metrists by Thomas Stewart Omond (1903)
"This poem practically introduced its metre to English readers, and was thus "epoch- making" in its way, quite apart from its contents, which provoked ..."

5. The History of Sicily from the Earliest Times by Edward Augustus Freeman (1892)
"The reign of Dionysios is indeed an epoch- making time, not only in the history of Sicily, but in the history of the world. Our general view of the position ..."

6. An Epitome of the History of Medicine by Roswell Park (1897)
"Schwann. Tyndall. Pasteur. Davaine. Lord Lister and his epoch-making devolution in Surgical Methods. ..."

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