单词 | revealable |
释义 | revealableadj. Capable of being revealed (in various senses); that can be revealed. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > [adjective] > disclosed or revealed > capable of being revealable1672 1672 W. Penn Spirit of Truth Vindicated 29 The Blessed Things which God hath prepared..are not revealable, but by his Spirit. 1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 75 Reverend Paradoxes and reverable (tho' not revealable to the Prophane) Errors of some true Sons of the Church. 1744 Ld. Orrery Let. 18 Feb. in Orrery Papers (1903) II. 184 The Secrets of Councils are not revealable. 1807 S. T. Coleridge To Gentleman 8 Thou hast dared to tell What may be told, to the understanding mind Revealable. 1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 347 That Truth which is..the more loved because never wholly revealable. 1909 G. Tyrell Christianity at Cross-roads i. xi. 109 A real cause or agent is only revealable in, through and with its effects or appearances. 1945 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 39 262 The true and the good are revealable, not at once, but as you go along. 2008 P. Siegel Communication Law in Amer. vii. 311 An explicit distinction between the information contained in a database (revealable) and the computer software that helps organize that information (not necessarily revealable). Derivatives reˈvealableness n. rare ΚΠ 1847 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Revealableness. 1913 Harvard Theol. Rev. 6 25 The personality of God is the only successful way of vitalizing the entire revealableness of the unseen powers. 1995 P. Madigan & L. Beaumont tr. L.-M. Chauvet Symbol & Sacrament i. ii. 61 Charged with attending to the ‘revealableness’ of Being by carrying it into language, the poet, allowing the word to speak, is touched by grace. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1672 |
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