All 7 Uses of
revelation
in
Jane Eyre
- I like Revelations, and the book of Daniel, and Genesis and Samuel, and a little bit of Exodus, and some parts of Kings and Chronicles, and Job and Jonah.†
Chpt 4 *
- She had obviously not heard anything to her advantage: and it seemed to me, from her prolonged fit of gloom and taciturnity, that she herself, notwithstanding her professed indifference, attached undue importance to whatever revelations had been made her.†
Chpt 18
- According as the shifting obscurity and flickering gleam hovered here or glanced there, it was now the bearded physician, Luke, that bent his brow; now St. John's long hair that waved; and anon the devilish face of Judas, that grew out of the panel, and seemed gathering life and threatening a revelation of the arch-traitor — of Satan himself — in his subordinate's form.†
Chpt 20
- I almost wondered they did not check their songs and whispers to catch the suspended revelation; but they would have had to wait many minutes — so long was the silence protracted.†
Chpt 20
- "Don't talk any more of those days, sir," I interrupted, furtively dashing away some tears from my eyes; his language was torture to me; for I knew what I must do — and do soon — and all these reminiscences, and these revelations of his feelings only made my work more difficult.†
Chpt 27
- How much of him was saint, how much mortal, I could not heretofore tell: but revelations were being made in this conference: the analysis of his nature was proceeding before my eyes.†
Chpt 34
- For the evening reading before prayers, he selected the twenty-first chapter of Revelation.†
Chpt 35 *
Definitions:
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(revelation with a lowercase "r") something that was previously unknown (and typically surprising); or making such a thing known
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Revelation as a proper noun refers to the last book of the Bible with visionary descriptions of the End of Days.