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noun

Revelation n.

The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them.

That which is revealed.

(Theol.)

(a)

The act of revealing divine truth.

(b)

That which is revealed by God to man; esp., the Bible. "By revelation he made known unto me the mystery, as I wrote afore in few words."

Specifically, the last book of the sacred canon, containing the prophecies of St. John; the Apocalypse or Book of Revelation or The Revelation of Saint John.

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"Revelation" Quotes from Famous Books

... a genuine shriek, and Mr. Grummit, suddenly remembering himself, stopped short and attacked the bed with extraordinary fury. The room resounded with the blows, and the efforts of Mrs. Grummit were a revelation even to her husband. ...

— Captains All and Others • W.W. Jacobs

... necessarily only a matter of surmise, since I alone knew all the painful details. I refer to the poisoning of the Emperor at Fontainebleau. I trust I do not need to protest my perfect truthfulness; I feel too keenly the great importance of such a revelation to allow myself to omit or add the least circumstance to the truth. I shall therefore relate events just as they occurred, just as I saw them, and as memory, has engraved the painful details indelibly on ...

— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

... to analyze his real emotions, and his one endeavor was to hide his perplexity. He had always treated her as if she were older than the town supposed, hence the revelation of her age did not so much matter; but lion-training was so remote from conventions that it seemed in a way almost uncanny. It seemed to isolate Fran, to set her coldly apart from ...

— Fran • John Breckenridge Ellis

... thirteenth chapter of the Revelation, is, according to him, Rome pagan; the power, which is given to it for forty-two months, signifies Domitian's persecution, which lasted three years and a half. The beast that ascended out of the bottomless pit, mentioned chap. xi. ver. 7. is magic, and Apollonius Thyanaeus: in fine, he finds ...

— The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius • Jean Levesque de Burigny

... staff—first the Greek alphabet from north-east to south-west, and then the Latin, from south-east to north-west, thus placing them in the form of a cross. He signified by this ceremony that all divine revelation was conveyed by the letters of the alphabet, and that the gospel comprehended under the shadow of the cross men of all races and all languages. The time had been when at such consecrations three alphabets were written—the ...

— England, Picturesque and Descriptive - A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel • Joel Cook

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