All 11 Uses

revelation
in
The Rainbow Trail
(Edited)

Remembering Withers's revelation about the Navajo, Shefford scarcely knew how to approach him now.
Chpt 4 *

revelation = something previously unknown; or making such a thing known
Joe Lake swung his rope and cracked the flanks of the gray mare and the red mule; and the way the two kicked was a revelation and a warning to Shefford.
Chpt 4
The patience of the trader was a revelation to Shefford.
Chpt 5
He divined the revelation—divined the coming blow—but that was as far as his mind got.
Chpt 11
In the light of this subsequent revelation how easy to account for his loving Mary, too.
Chpt 11
THE REVELATION
Chpt 12

revelation = something previously unknown
He must begin his revelation.
Chpt 12

revelation = something previously unknown; or making such a thing known
The result of Joe's hint was that Shefford put off the hour of revelation, lived in his dream, helped the girl grow farther and farther away from her trouble, until that inevitable hour arrived when he was driven by accumulated emotion as much as the exigency of the case.
Chpt 12
What might it not become with a lightning flash of revelation?
Chpt 12
In the uplift of his spirit, in the joy at this revelation, he almost forgot the stern matter at hand.
Chpt 15
"YOU—THINK—I—" Shefford's gasping whisper failed in the shock of the revelation that Fay believed he had killed Waggoner.
Chpt 18

Definitions:

(1) (revelation)
something that was previously unknown (and typically surprising); or making such a thing known
(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.