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REVELATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An enlightening or astonishing disclosure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("revelation" is a kind of...):
brainstorm; brainwave; insight (the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation)
Derivation:
reveal (make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The last book of the New Testament; contains visionary descriptions of heaven and of conflicts between good and evil and of the end of the world; attributed to Saint John the Apostle
Synonyms:
Apocalypse; Book of Revelation; Revelation; Revelation of Saint John the Divine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Instance hypernyms:
book (a major division of a long written composition)
Domain member category:
Four Horsemen ((New Testament) the four evils that will come at the end of the world: conquest rides a white horse; war a red horse; famine a black horse; plague a pale horse)
Holonyms ("Revelation" is a part of...):
New Testament (the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible)
Derivation:
reveal (disclose directly or through prophets)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Communication of knowledge to man by a divine or supernatural agency
Synonyms:
divine revelation; revelation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("revelation" is a kind of...):
informing; making known (a speech act that conveys information)
Derivation:
reveal (disclose directly or through prophets)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The speech act of making something evident
Synonyms:
disclosure; revealing; revelation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("revelation" is a kind of...):
speech act (the use of language to perform some act)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "revelation"):
singing; tattle; telling (disclosing information or giving evidence about another)
display (behavior that makes your feelings public)
divulgement; divulgence (the act of disclosing something that was secret or private)
discovery (something that is discovered)
discovery ((law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case)
giveaway (an unintentional disclosure)
informing; ratting (to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors))
leak; news leak (unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information)
exposure (the disclosure of something secret)
Context examples:
For example: the day after that on which I was obliged to appear against him, he made certain revelations touching a hamper in the cellar, which we believed to be full of wine, but which had nothing in it except bottles and corks.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A new study shows that a protein in the muscle can lessen the effects of sleep loss in mice, a surprising revelation that challenges the widely accepted notion that the brain controls all aspects of sleep.
(Muscle, Not Brain, May Hold Answers to Some Sleep Disorders, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
That club was a revelation.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
One side was blank, for it had been the last leaf; the other contained a verse or two of Revelation—these words among the rest, which struck sharply home upon my mind: Without are dogs and murderers.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
It was a revelation that stunned him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Additionally, a secret could come out—yours or someone else’s that involves you—so it may be a time of revelation.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
How much of him was saint, how much mortal, I could not heretofore tell: but revelations were being made in this conference: the analysis of his nature was proceeding before my eyes.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
But it is a revelation, on the other hand.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
For the old lady was in the middle of her story, and long before it was done, Jo was off again, making more droll revelations and committing still more fearful blunders.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He spoke little of his own exploits in Brazil and Peru, but it was a revelation to me to find the excitement which was caused by his presence among the riverine natives, who looked upon him as their champion and protector.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
