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revelation
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Mrs. Dalloway
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- He noted such revelations on the backs of envelopes.†
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- It was a sudden revelation, a tinge like a blush which one tried to check and then, as it spread, one yielded to its expansion, and rushed to the farthest verge and there quivered and felt the world come closer, swollen with some astonishing significance, some pressure of rapture, which split its thin skin and gushed and poured with an extraordinary alleviation over the cracks and sores!
revelation = something previously unknown; or making such a thing known
- And she felt that she had been given a present, wrapped up, and told just to keep it, not to look at it—a diamond, something infinitely precious, wrapped up, which, as they walked (up and down, up and down), she uncovered, or the radiance burnt through, the revelation, the religious feeling!
- He had a sudden revelation.
- He was a prey to revelations at that time.†
- He would turn round, he would tell them in a few moments, only a few moments more, of this relief, of this joy, of this astonishing revelation— "The time, Septimus," Rezia repeated.
revelation = something previously unknown; or making such a thing known
- It was at that moment (Rezia gone shopping) that the great revelation took place.
- It was the sort of thing that did sometimes happen, when one was alone—buildings without architects' names, crowds of people coming back from the city having more power than single clergymen in Kensington, than any of the books Miss Kilman had lent her, to stimulate what lay slumbrous, clumsy, and shy on the mind's sandy floor to break surface, as a child suddenly stretches its arms; it was just that, perhaps, a sigh, a stretch of the arms, an impulse, a revelation, which has its effects for ever, and then down again it went to the sandy floor.
- Miracles, revelations, agonies, loneliness, falling through the sea, down, down into the flames, all were burnt out, for he had a sense, as he watched Rezia trimming the straw hat for Mrs. Peters, of a coverlet of flowers.†
Definitions:
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(revelation) something that was previously unknown (and typically surprising); or making such a thing known
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) As a proper noun, Revelation refers to the last book of the Bible with visionary descriptions of the End of Days. It can also refer to things revealed religiously rather than via logic.