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epochal

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ep·och·al  (p-kl, -kl)
adj.
1. Of or characteristic of an epoch.
2.
a. Highly significant or important; momentous: epochal decisions made by Roosevelt and Churchill.
b. Without parallel: epochal stupidity.
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Adj.1.epochal - highly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era; "epochal decisions made by Roosevelt and Churchill"; "an epoch-making discovery"
epoch-making
significant, important - important in effect or meaning; "a significant change in tax laws"; "a significant change in the Constitution"; "a significant contribution"; "significant details"; "statistically significant"


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Epochal issues can change an electorate's mood or historical patterns; eight years ago, anger over the drawn-out impeachment of Bill Clinton inspired voters to add more Democrats to Congress, despite the "rule" of the sixth-year slump.
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Yet few grasp how these fit a larger epochal transition, for which constructing cultural complexes is still more of a symptom than the catalyst it could be.
From doing to being: cultural buildings and the city in the ... by Buchanan, Peter / The Architectural Review
One increasingly sees in recent published work (and in dissertations-in-progress) the 1750-1850 periodization, for example, in which independence from Spain (1821) is still taken seriously, but as a watershed, in the sense that one needs to see which way political processes flow on either side, rather than as an epochal disjunction.
The Time of Liberty: Popular Political Culture in Oaxaca, 1750-1850 by Van Young, Eric / Journal of Social History
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