Both Uses of
revelation
in
Great Expectations
- Saving his troublesome sense of having been "low' on one occasion since his return,—on which point he began to hold forth to Herbert, the moment my revelation was finished,—he had no perception of the possibility of my finding any fault with my good fortune.†
Chpt 41
- Therefore, I had sent him the unopened pocket-book by Herbert, to hold in his own keeping, and I felt a kind of satisfaction—whether it was a false kind or a true, I hardly know—in not having profited by his generosity since his revelation of himself.†
Chpt 47 *
Definition:
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(revelation with a lowercase "r") something that was previously unknown (and typically surprising); or making such a thing known