Synonym: Apocalypse, Book of Revelation, Revelation, Revelation of Saint John the Divine, disclosure, revealing. Similar words: relation, correlation, relationship, in relation to, relatively, prevention, violation, inflation. Meaning: [‚revə'leɪʃn] n. 1. the speech act of making something evident 2. an enlightening or astonishing disclosure 3. communication of knowledge to man by a divine or supernatural agency 4. 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.
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(61) The excitement of Cynthia's revelation had been too much for her and Cynthia now anxiously rang the bell for the nurse.
(62) However, this revelation did not bring about the destruction of Euclidean geometry, it simply added to it.
(63) Will it burst with love again, like colours, speech that catches fire, tears of revelation from infinity?
(64) It was a revelation in its heyday, but Viz is now starting to look rather tired.
(65) To do this he did not need to make any apparently arbitrary appeal to particular revelation or received authority.
(66) An attractive face, with dark eyes and dark eyebrows, but no revelation.Sentence dictionary
(67) The revelation comes as the Social Security Consortium prepares to issue a campaigning leaflet calling for reform of the fund.
(68) Such thinking may have a particular appeal to Catholic Christians, who tend to think in terms of an evolving revelation.
(69) If Richter's Brahms is a revelation, then his playing of Liszt is without equal.
(70) For Lisa the experience was a revelation - and a chance to shake off her earlier strange feelings.
(71) The declaration exposed him to accusations of hypocrisy after each revelation of arms sales to dubious regimes.
(72) Another revelation: enthusiastic volunteers were not necessarily best-suited to be foster parents, either by temperament or circumstances.
(73) He pulled out drawer after drawer,(sentencedict.com) his frenzy building with each new revelation of supposedly missing clothes.
(74) Within a few months after his celestial revelation, Atkinson had a mock-up of the program.
(75) Excuse me while I pour a cup, just to get over the revelation. Organic farming frequently encounters such philosophical problems.
(76) Every new revelation about those times makes me think I've fallen down on the job.
(77) Ideally your final revelation should combine both the elements of this double-harnessed form, detection and novel writing.
(78) But, in addition, they implied that O'Keeffe's work was a revelation of female sexuality.
(79) Our emphasis on the culture-conditioning of revelation poses some problems which must be squarely faced.
(80) For Locke the separate compartments for faith and reason, or reason and revelation, did not exist.
(81) The revelation comes as an oil industry survey claims 84 percent of forecourts were hit by crime last year.
(82) The official excuse for a sudden wave sweeping every column inch of coverage is that a genuine revelation has occurred.
(83) They are chiefly associated with his distinctive emphases on historical revelation and on the ethical rather than mystical nature of religion.
(84) This precious new phial of innocence, his new self after the revelation, had to be offered to Mary.
(85) They are heading off to bed early when conscience-stricken Jackie comes out with the devastating revelation.
(86) All this was awful enough, but a yet more disturbing revelation was to come.
(87) With pierced nose, wild red hair and an enormous collection of tattoos, Joolz is a revelation.
(88) Dawn, despite its revelation of an ominous pall hanging over the mountains, found us hitching towards Cairngorm.
(89) To say that the Church was the sole conduit of divine revelation was to dictate terms to the Almighty.
(90) The revelation had devastated him, eroding his confidence and his desire for her.
More similar words: relation, correlation, relationship, in relation to, relatively, prevention, violation, inflation, isolation, regulation, population, speculation, calculation, legislation, translation, installation, relative, revolutionary, nation, zonation, equation, operation, formation, location, donation, education, national, situation, variation, allegation.