All 7 Uses
revelation
in
The Turn of the Screw
(Edited)
- There had been, this evening, after the revelation left me, for an hour, so prostrate—there had been, for either of us, no attendance on any service but a little service of tears and vows, of prayers and promises, a climax to the series of mutual challenges and pledges that had straightway ensued on our retreating together to the schoolroom and shutting ourselves up there to have everything out.
Chpt Allrevelation = something previously unknown; or making such a thing known
- It was a pity to be obliged to reinvestigate the certitude of the moment itself and repeat how it had come to me as a revelation that the inconceivable communion I then surprised was a matter, for either party, of habit.
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- I had had brothers myself, and it was no revelation to me that little girls could be slavish idolaters of little boys.
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- —what if, by risking to his boyish bewilderment a revelation of my motive, I should throw across the rest of the mystery the long halter of my boldness?
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- What was so unnatural for the particular boy I was concerned with was this sudden revelation of a consciousness and a plan.
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- The revelation then of the manner in which Flora was affected startled me, in truth, far more than it would have done to find her also merely agitated, for direct dismay was of course not what I had expected.
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- To do it in ANY way was an act of violence, for what did it consist of but the obtrusion of the idea of grossness and guilt on a small helpless creature who had been for me a revelation of the possibilities of beautiful intercourse?
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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) 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.