The word epiphany means a manifestation, showing forth or presentation. Because Jesus's Epiphany is usually painted in glowing hues, some semi-literate bird brain in the Sixties concluded that the word meant a "revelation" or mind unboggling eclat. Snap. Crack! Oh Wow! From that dubious jumping-off point the word came to mean a Life-Transforming insight. In typically sociological fashion, American dictionaries have trod after the ignorant and misinformed and have now "ratified" the misuse of a word as its "accepted" meaning. A manifestation is not an insight, period.
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