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self-reˈvealed, ppl. a. [self- 2.] Revealed by one's own action. So self-reˈvealing vbl. n. and ppl. a., self-reˈvealment.
1839Hallam Lit. Eur. iii. iv. §3 By sanctioning the guilt of the self-revealing party. 1877E. Caird Philos. Kant ii. xviii. 645 The doctrine that God as a spirit is necessarily self-revealing. 1897Dowden Fr. Lit. iv. ii. 277 The Esprit des Lois..must always be precious as the self-revealment of a great intellect. 1907W. H. Hadow Shaks. Sonn. Introd. p. xi, Of all poetic forms the lyric..is the most self-revealing. 1908Outlook 10 Oct. 462/1 Seeing all its strange beauty and listening to its mysterious self-revealing. 1923J. W. Harvey tr. Otto's Idea of Holy xx. 175 For the abyss between creature and Creator.., sin and holiness, is..increased by that deeper knowledge that comes from the Gospel of Christ: and, as a result of the emotion..stirred in the recognition of it, that in which ‘the holy’ stands self-revealed is taken here..both as the refuge from, and the means by which to approach, Holiness. 1978Church Times 11 Aug. 6/3 Barth's God is God self-revealed not as a doormat but as Father, Son and Spirit. |