"epoch-making" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1961 December, “Editorial: Führerprinzip for nationalised transport”, in Trains Illustrated, page 705:",
          "text": "Equally to be expected, in view of the trend of Government legislation and pronouncements over the past few years—but no less epoch-making for that—is the proposal that the railways and canals shall cease to be common carriers and be entirely free to fix their own passenger and freight charges, [...].",
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          "ref": "2001 September 14, Matthew Tempest, quoting Tony Blair, “Blair: attacks are of 'epoch-making proportions'”, in The Guardian:",
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        "Constituting an epoch; opening a new era; introducing new conceptions or a new method in the treatment of a subject; highly novel and influential."
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          "sense": "constituting an epoch",
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