All 8 Uses of
revelation
in
The Idiot
- We are for ever present at an orgy of scandalous revelations.†
Chpt 1.12 *
- Totski was dreadfully alarmed to hear her promise a revelation out of her own life.
Chpt 1.14revelation = something previously unknown; or making such a thing known
- It was now Totski's turn, and his story was awaited with great curiosity—while all eyes turned on Nastasia Philipovna, as though anticipating that his revelation must be connected somehow with her.
Chpt 1.14
- But in interpreting revelation I am the equal of anyone, great as he may be!
Chpt 2.2
- "No doubt there are pleasures and amusements peculiar to the country," he continued, "and to listen to a pretended student holding forth on the book of the Revelations may be as good as any other.†
Chpt 2.6
- In the poem it is not stated exactly what the ideal was, but it was evidently some vision, some revelation of pure Beauty, and the knight wore round his neck, instead of a scarf, a rosary.
Chpt 2.6revelation = something previously unknown; or making such a thing known
- It is clear that he has been deceived, or he would never have agreed to anything so vile as the scandalous revelations about his mother in Mr. Keller's article.†
Chpt 2.8
- If I were to bring you to the most loathsome den, and show you the revelation of undisguised vice—you should not blush.
Chpt 3.10revelation = something previously unknown; or making such a thing known
Definitions:
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(1)
(revelation) something that was previously unknown (and typically surprising); or making such a thing known
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, Revelation as a proper noun refers to the last book of the Bible with visionary descriptions of the End of Days. Less commonly still, it sometimes refers to things revealed religiously rather than via logic.