All 12 Uses
revelation
in
The Heritage of the Desert
(Edited)
- A Bishop of the Mormon Church has the gift of tongues, of prophecy, of revelation, of healing.
Chpt 2 *revelation = something previously unknown; or making such a thing known
- I haven't the gift of revelation—yet somehow I see that you won't die of this illness.
Chpt 2
- I've not the gift of revelation, but I see—let us go.
Chpt 2
- Naab liked to talk; he had said he had not the gift of revelation, but he certainly had the gift of tongues.
Chpt 3
- I've not the gift of revelation, yet I seem to see you on a big gray horse with a shining mane.
Chpt 4
- I've not the gift of revelation—but, Jack, you're going to get well.
Chpt 7
- I haven't the gift of revelation, but I've come to believe Martin Cole.
Chpt 8
- August Naab's gloomy face worked, and his eagle-gaze had in it a strange far-seeing light; his mind was dwelling upon his mystic power of revelation.
Chpt 11
- Always in those moments of revelation which he disclaimed, he had seen himself as faithful to the desert in the end.
Chpt 18
- It had paralyzed him with the revelation it brought; for Hare now knew as he had never known anything before, that he would forestall August Naab, avenge the death of Dave, and kill the rustler Holderness.
Chpt 18
- It was a long time before Hare recovered from the starting revelation of the plot which had put Mescal into Holderness's power.
Chpt 19
- For, Mormons, August Naab has the gift of revelation!
Chpt 20
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.