revelationrev‧e‧la‧tion /ˌrevəˈleɪʃən/ ●○○ AWL noun 
He resigned after revelations about his affair. startling revelations about his backgroundrevelation that revelations that two senior officers had lied in court2[uncountable] the act of suddenly making known a surprising fact that had previously been secretrevelation of the revelation of previously unknown facts3[countable] informal something that is surprisingly good, enjoyable, or usefulrevelation to Alice Walker’s novel was a real revelation to me.4[countable, uncountable] an event, experience etc that is considered to be a message from God—revelatory /ˌrevəˈleɪtəri $ ˈrevələtɔːri/ adjective: His playing has many moments of revelatory insights.
WORD ORIGINrevelation
Origin:
1300-1400 Old French, Latin, from revelare; ➔ REVEALEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Each new revelation received extensive news coverage.
- Bangor have been a revelation this season and are still pushing for success on three fronts, unlike the poor old Blues.
- But the major revelation is the Symphony No. 4, which is conducted by the then-44-year-old Kurt Sanderling.
- But tonight's lesson, dealing with electrical fittings, had been a revelation.
- It was the single greatest revelation of his religious life.
- Recently I had this revelation that my life is like stretch pants.
- The revelation of his adultery scuttled his chances of replacing Gen.
- The effusions of Vaneigem have an air of mystical revelation which is even more intense in recent publications.
- To do this he did not need to make any apparently arbitrary appeal to particular revelation or received authority.
WORD SETS
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY startling revelations about his backgroundCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES faith in divine providence divine power divine loveCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
startling revelations about his background faith in divine providence divine power divine love· On the one side the appeal was to reason; on the other, to faith and special divine revelation.· To say that the Church was the sole conduit of divine revelation was to dictate terms to the Almighty.· It represents a direct divine revelation that delivers a capacity for understanding beyond the parameters of normal discourse.· This, if you like, is divine revelation...· Those with such an awakened spirit might be blessed in this life with divine dreams and revelations.
· She was far from confident that she possessed the moral courage to endure further revelations from that dark side of her moon.· While the criminal investigation is over, the case could produce further revelations in upcoming court sessions, sources said.
· But that lay in tatters last night after the latest revelations.· Indeed, Greene's latest revelations about his faith-non-faith appear quite knowingly hilarious.
· Each new revelation was greeted with raucous shouts of impatience.· Perhaps, some thought, a new revelation or a new community was needed.· Two of the New Testament revelations are ambiguously reported.· He pulled out drawer after drawer, his frenzy building with each new revelation of supposedly missing clothes.· I remembered Neil telling me that his biggest problem with the book was that there were no new, exciting revelations.· And at the dawning of a new revelation change and growth will be painful, and at times confusing.· Surely my family's experience and this new revelation can not be a coincidence.
· The recent investigations, revelations, and indictments have forced the industry to change the way it conducted business for 150 years.· But alarming as the recent revelations are, the message should not be to forget about life insurance.
VERB· Clinton was forced to withdraw several nominees due to embarrassing revelations over their political stances or child-care issues.
· Recruitment was a major source of anxiety following Boer War revelations about the high rate of recruits rejected on grounds of ill-health.· Talking of bank-notes and following Barleycorn's exclusive revelation of the Corporate Lada Initiative, we can reveal another brilliant money-saver.
· Some said that dating should begin with the moment when the Prophet first received the revelation.
· By 1923 the country was very prosperous and the general public did not seem to be particularly shocked by the revelations.
· One of those youngsters was Horton, and he would later expose another crop of dreamers to that startling sense of revelation.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
- Because then it was that she knew, with blinding clarity, what had been there for some time now.
- It had come to him as a blinding revelation when he was but a small child.
WORD FAMILYadjectiverevealingrevelatorynounrevelationverbrevealadverbrevealingly
1[countable] a surprising fact about someone or something that was previously secret and is now made knownrevelation about/concerning He resigned after revelations about his affair. startling revelations about his backgroundrevelation that revelations that two senior officers had lied in court2[uncountable] the act of suddenly making known a surprising fact that had previously been secretrevelation of the revelation of previously unknown facts3[countable] informal something that is surprisingly good, enjoyable, or usefulrevelation to Alice Walker’s novel was a real revelation to me.4[countable, uncountable] an event, experience etc that is considered to be a message from God—revelatory /ˌrevəˈleɪtəri $ ˈrevələtɔːri/ adjective: His playing has many moments of revelatory insights.