epoch-making

epoch-making
/ep"euhk may'king/ or, esp. Brit., /ee"pok-/, adj.
opening a new era, as in human history, thought, or knowledge; epochal: an epoch-making discovery.
[1870-75]

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Universalium. 2010.

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