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Meaning: (idiomatic)Aprofoundtransformation; ametamorphosis.Public opinion has undergone asea changesince the 2002 elections.1842March, “The Bermudas”, inThe Ladies’ Cabinet of Fashion, Music, and Romance, volume VII, London: Geo[rge]Henderson,[…],→OCLC,page188:A few days wrought, as it were, a magical "sea change" in everything around us. The late dark and angry sea, lashed up into roaring and swashing surges, became calm and sunny; the rude winds died away; and gradually a light breeze sprang up directly aft.1851, “Captain Frederick Marryat”, inRobert Chambers, editor,Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time,[…], volume II, Boston, Mass.: Gould and Lincoln,[…],→OCLC,page622, column 2:His [Frederick Marryat's] last work, ‘Percival Keane’ (1842), betrays no falling-off, but, on the contrary, is one of the most vigorous and interesting of his ‘sea changes.’1854January 14,Supplement to The Courant.[…], volume XIX, number 1, Hartford, Conn.: Boswell & Faxon,→OCLC,page 8, column 1:[S]uddenly, a "sea change" came over his features,[…]1869December 4, “Submarine Warfare”, inThe United States Army and Navy Journal and Gazette of the Regular and Volunteer Forces, volume VII, number16, New York, N.Y.: Army and Navy Journal,→OCLC,page237, column 1:Assuredly the fine old North Carolinan [William Alexander Graham], who has meanwhile himself gone under politically, as little anticipated while penning this sententious answer the "sea-change" as the sectional one which was to come after him. A "sea-change" has indeed transpired.1879October,W. C. B., “John Randolph: A Sketch”, in W. P. Kent, editor,The Virginia University Magazine, volume XIX, number 1, Charlottesville, Va.: Literary Societies of theUniversity of Virginia; Chronicle Steam Book and Job Printing Office,→OCLC,page38:It is interesting to watch how the most unpromising subject seems to warm and assimilate with his [John Randolph of Roanoke's] genius. Everything undergoes aseachange.1889August, “Books of the Month”, inThe Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume LXIV, number CCCLXXXII, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.:Houghton, Mifflin and Company[…],→OCLC,page288, column 2:Is it possible that our sense of humor has already undergone asea-change?[…][T]he book as a whole seems strangely antiquated.1894December, Helen Marshall North, “The Charm of Variety in Life”, in Theodore L. Flood, editor,The Chautauquan[…], volume XI (New Series; volume XX overall), number 3, Meadville, Pa.: The T. L. Flood Publishing House,→OCLC,page340, column 2:There are other worlds than ours, and we never again return to the old place, because we have suffered not only asea-changebut a soul-change.1910November,Jack London, “Actors’ Description of Characters”, inTheft: A Play in Four Acts, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company; London:Macmillan & Co.,→OCLC,pages x–xi:Anthony Starkweather.[…]Essentially a moral man, his rigid New England morality has suffered asea changeand developed into the morality of the master-man of affairs, equally rigid, equally uncompromising, but essentially Jesuitical in that he believes in doing wrong that right may come of it.1992,Stuart Cunningham, “A Tale of Two Institutions”, in John Tulloch, editor,Framing Culture: Criticism and Policy in Australia(Australian Cultural Studies), St. Leonards, N.S.W.:Allen & Unwin,→ISBN,page21:On the right, emerging from the social sciences, is a position that identifies the recentsea changesin Eastern Europe and the USSR, the longer-term global shifts toward internationalisation and the collapse of movement politics of various kinds as calling into question the continuing relevance of the neo Marxist 'motor' of cultural studies.1996,Anthony Seldon, “Introduction: The Tory Party in Power: 1783–1996”, inHow Tory Governments Fall: The Tory Party in Power since 1783, London: Fourth Estate,HarperCollins, publishedJune 2016,→ISBN:New economic, social and international pressures were threatening aseachangein the language of politics, with more activism sought from government than in thelaissez-fairenineteenth century.2003, Vince Lombardi, Jr., “Think Big Picture”, inThe Lombardi Rules: 26 Lessons fromVince Lombardi, the World’s Greatest Coach(McGraw-Hill Professional Education),McGraw-Hill,→ISBN,page10:Don't be swayed by minor setbacks: Don't confuse minor shifts withsea-changes. A bump in the road can—and should—be navigated without making major route changes.2005,Bryan Ward-Perkins, “Did Rome Ever Fall?”, inThe Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization, 1st paperback edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.:Oxford University Press, published2006,→ISBN,page 4:There has been asea changein the language used to describe post-Roman times. Words like ‘decline’ and ‘crisis’, which suggest problems at the end of the empire and which were quite usual into the 1970s, have largely disappeared from historians’ vocabularies, to be replaced by neutral terms, like ‘transition’, ‘change’, and ‘transformation’.2018, Christine K. Jahnke, “Introduction”, inThe Well-spoken Woman Speaks Out: How to Use Your Voice to Drive Change, Amherst, N.Y.:Prometheus Books,[…],→ISBN,page10:Asea changeis under way. It used to be that when a man spoke, people listened; and when a woman spoke, her credentials were questioned, appearance found lacking, and message dismissed. Not. Any. More.2022January 26, John Crosse, “When the tide turned to a safer railway...”, inRAIL, number949, page53:The catalyst was the introduction of the Health & Safety at Work Act in 1974. While it applied to all workplaces, it gradually brought about asea changein the attitude towards death and injury. Accidents were no longer accepted as 'inevitable'.
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