单词 | self-revelation |
释义 | self-revelationn. The action or an act of revealing oneself; the fact of something revealing itself; spec. (a) God's revelation of himself to humankind; (b) disclosure or revelation of one's private thoughts, feelings, motives, etc.; an instance of this.rare before 19th cent. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > [noun] > self-revelation self-revelation1651 self-revealing1803 self-disclosure1826 self-revealment1854 1651 R. Baxter Additions to Saints Everlasting Rest Pref. sig. dd2v If I believe it [sc. Scipture] to be of God, because it revealeth it self to be so..then this self-Revelation is..to be discerned by Reason. 1827 Lit. Chron. & Weekly Rev. 17 Mar. 175/3 On the recent self-revelation of the great unknown:—The author of Waverley, manifest grown, Is henceforth not even a little unknown. 1842 J. E. Ryland tr. A. Neander Hist. Planting & Training Christian Church II. vi. i. 104 The self-revelation of God in creation. 1853 W. Jerdan Autobiogr. III. 51 The self-revelations I have deemed essential to my life-story. 1922 N.Y. Times 24 Sept. vii. 6/1 A shy, sensitive soul,..shrinking from the confidences and self-revelations which alone make..companionship possible. 1979 B. Hebblethwaite in M. Goulder Incarnation & Myth iv. 93 His spiritual and sacramental presence and activity, by means of which God's personal self-revelation in Jesus is universalized. 2009 Independent 6 Nov. (Arts & Bks. section) 5/2 The cancer disburdened him of many of his inhibitions about self-revelation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1651 |
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