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Definition
something that was previously unknown (and typically surprising); or making such a thing known
- Had we the secret of that mirror, we would gladly sit down before it, and transfer its revelations to our page.Chapter 1 — The Old Pyncheon Family (63% in)
- After such a revelation, let him smile with what sultriness he would, he could much sooner turn grapes purple, or pumpkins yellow, than melt the iron-branded impression out of the beholder's memory.Chapter 8 — The Pyncheon of To-day (86% in)
There are no more uses of "revelation" in The House of the Seven Gables.
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