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revelation

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Revelation , in religion and theology, is the act of revealing through communication with supernatural entities. Revelation ( s ) may also refer to: Book of Revelation or simply Revelation, the last book of the New Testament Revelation (Latter Day Saints) ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Revelation \Rev`e*la"tion\, n. [F. r['e]v['e]lation, L. revelatio. See Reveal .] The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them. That which is revealed. (Theol.) The act of revealing divine truth. That ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of revealing or disclosing. 2 Something that is revealed.

Usage examples of revelation.

It came to him with the force of a revelation that Cass excelled in everything she did, and that had she not married him all these talents would have died aborning This aroused in him a fierce protectiveness towards her which he had not suspected he possessed.

Veneziano, then a research fellow at CERN, the European accelerator laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, had worked on aspects of this problem for a number of years, until one day he came upon a striking revelation.

Amazingly this revelation hits thousands of smokers who believed they had addictive personalities until they tried Easyway.

And, although amid the ever-growing degeneracy of mankind, this primeval word of revelation was falsified by the admixture of various errors, and overlaid and obscured by numberless and manifold fictions, inextricably confused, and disfigured almost beyond the power of recognition, still a profound inquiry will discover in heathenism many luminous vestiges of primitive Truth.

And now we shall encounter revelations of another aspect of thisthe personal distress and bitterness experienced by scientists unfortunate enough to make anomalous discoveries.

To the apocalyptist, who literally awaits the Great Uncovering, all coincidence is synchronicity, all accident revelation.

A month later, after press revelations that the Atlanta branch of the Italian Banco Nazionale del Lavoro had helped Iraq divert massive amounts of U.

Iraqi transgressions, there were some things that could not be suppressed, and these led to sensational cases such as the revelation of the Banco Nazionale del Lavoro scandal, FBI sting operations to catch the Iraqis illegally acquiring sensitive U.

Miss Mannering did not think the spirits other benefactress would be elevated by the revelation that a certain ambitious tinker intended blackmail.

Another revelation buried in the biliteral cipher was of the levitation machine, which Fabyan attempted to build following the simple step-by-step directions.

But truly, else, a very faithful brother, A botcher, and a man, by revelation, That hath a competent knowledge of the truth.

When he had finished Boule de Suif, with a spontaneous impulse, with an emotion they never forgot, filled with enthusiasm at this revelation, they all rose and, without superfluous words, acclaimed him as a master.

Mission of the Founder of our Faith, the centenary of what may be truly regarded as the darkest, the most tragic, the most heroic, period in the annals of a hundred-year-old Revelation.

A so-called free-thinker told me at one time that I could not consider myself a philosopher if I placed any faith in revelation.

The fragmentary pieces of texts, such as the Chester Beatty papyri or the Bodmer papryri, containing portions of the four Gospels and Acts, as well as some of the Pauline epistles, Hebrews and Revelation, are datable only to the third century, a few pieces no earlier than the year 200.