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- n. The appearance of an angel to a human being.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The actual appearance of an angel to man.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The visible manifestation of an angel or angels to man.
The stories of almsgiving, burial of the dead, angelophany, exorcism, marriage of Sara with Tobias the younger, cure of the elder Tobias = = all these incidents were taken for granted as fact-narrative; nor was there ever any question of likening them to the tales of "The Arabian Nights" and the "Fables of