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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"
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
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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