Definition of "epochal" []

• Of or characteristic of an epoch. (adjective)
• Highly significant or important; momentous: epochal decisions made by Roosevelt and Churchill. (adjective)
• Without parallel: epochal stupidity. (adjective)

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• "Clement Nyirenda also remarks on how the punditry got it wrong, and finds the voting pattern for the incumbent president's win epochal:"
• "The word epochal is overstated, but it felt like it then and it has subsequently proved to be that."
• "True, Barack Obama was elected president in a political upheaval that can only be described as epochal, but, well, you don't really think Cheney's just going to quietly vacate his office come January 20th, do you?"