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Noun: revelation  ,re-vu'ley-shun
  1. The speech act of making something evident
    - disclosure, revealing
     
  2. An enlightening or astonishing disclosure
     
  3. Communication of knowledge to man by a divine or supernatural agency
    - divine revelation
Noun: Revelation  re-vu'ley-shun
  1. 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
    - Revelation of Saint John the Divine, Apocalypse, Book of Revelation

Derived forms: Revelations, revelations

Type of: book, brainstorm, brainwave, informing, insight, making known, speech act

Part of: New Testament

Encyclopedia: Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge and Truth