Both Uses of
revelation
in
Babbitt
- He was usually delighted to have an "inside view" of the momentous world of motors but to-night he scarcely listened to Eddie Swanson's revelation:
Chpt 9revelation = revealing of something previously unknown
- For these valuable revelations she thanked him, and they ambled into the familiar gossip of the Bunch.
Chpt 31 *revelations = things previously unknown
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) 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.