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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The act of revealing or disclosing.
  2. n. Something revealed, especially a dramatic disclosure of something not previously known or realized.
  3. n. Theology A manifestation of divine will or truth.
  4. n. Bible See Table at Bible.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The act of revealing. The disclosing, discovering, or making known to others what was before unknown to them.
  2. n. The act of revealing or communicating religious truth, especially by divine or supernatural means.
  3. n. That which is revealed, disclosed, or made known; in theology, that disclosure which God makes of himself and of his will to his creatures.
  4. n. More specifically Such disclosure, communicated by supernatural means, of truths which could not be ascertained by natural means; hence, as containing such revelation, the Bible. , Divine revelation may be afforded by any one of four media— nature
  5. n. In metaphysics, immediate consciousness of something real and not phenomenal.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The act of revealing or disclosing
  2. n. Something that is revealed.
  3. n. Something dramatically disclosed
  4. n. theology A manifestation of divine truth
  5. n. A great success

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them.
  2. n. That which is revealed.
  3. n. The act of revealing divine truth.
  4. n. That which is revealed by God to man; esp., the Bible.
  5. n. 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.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the speech act of making something evident
  2. n. 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
  3. n. an enlightening or astonishing disclosure
  4. n. communication of knowledge to man by a divine or supernatural agency

Etymologies

  1. From Latin revēlātiō ("disclosure"), from revēlō ("to disclose"), re ("again") + vēlō ("to cover"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English revelacion, from Old French revelation, from Latin revēlātiō, revēlātiōn-, from revēlātus, past participle of revēlāre, to reveal; see reveal1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • ruzuzu There's always epiphany. Feb 22, 2011

  • lemonstar I'm surprised I can't find other words that sum up some kind of life-changing religious experience or conversion - am I missing something? Feb 22, 2011

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