All 4 Uses of
revelation
in
Interview with the Vampire
- 'No, slave,' she persisted in her grave monotone, as though thinking aloud, the words revelations, pieces of a puzzle.†
Part 1 *
- But who was to make this revelation when the sky and sea became indistinguishable and neither any longer was chaos?
Part 2revelation = something previously unknown; or making such a thing known
- This was to be a night of revelations, no matter how it ended.†
Part 3
- My mind went in three directions: that last night in the Hotel Saint-Gabriel, which seemed a year ago, when she talked of love with rancor; my reverberating shock at Armand's revelations or lack of them; and a quiet absorption of the vampires around me, who whispered in the dark beneath the grotesque murals.†
Part 3
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.