All 3 Uses of
revelation
in
Outliers
- It was a revelation.
Chpt 2revelation = something previously unknown; or making such a thing known
- To the readers of Popular Electronics, in those days the bible of the fledgling software and computer world, that headline was a revelation.
Chpt 2 *
- Coming from a world where clothing was sewn at home by hand or made to order by tailors, this was a revelation.
Chpt 5
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.