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epoch

mastery

UK /ˈiːpɒk/ US /ˈɛp.ək/nounverb

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Which meaning of 'epoch' best matches its use in the sentence?

And it occasionally happens that a period in which one had, hitherto, been mainly looking for the coming to birth of new things, suddenly reveals itself as an epoch of fading and decay.