All 10 Uses
revelation
in
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
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- He has done this; most remarkably, he has even multiplied his life by deception; and plunging deeper and deeper he speculates upon some glorious finish, a great explosion of revelations ...the future.†
Story 1.11
- Joel sat quietly, waiting for the full revelation of the meetings.
Story 2.18 *revelation = something previously unknown; or making such a thing known
- The heart is secret even when the moment it dreamed of has come, a moment when there might have been a revelation.... Joel stood motionless; he lifted his gaze from Burr's face and stared at nothing.
Story 2.18
- In each the silent man would have done a piece of evil, a robbery or a murder, in a place of long ago, and it was all made for the revelation in the end that the silent man was Murrell himself, and the long story had happened yesterday, and the place here-the Natchez Trace.
Story 2.20
- She did not know what it was, but she had heard it before from a distance, and she had a revelation.
Story 2.24
- The candles were lighted by Miss Moody, dateless tonight, on whose shelf in the flare of nightly revelation stood her toothbrush in the glass, her hand-painted celluloid powder box, her Honey and Almond cream, her rouge and eyebrow tweezers, and at the end of the line the bottle of Compound, containing true and false unicorn and the life root plant.
Story 3.29
- He clung to one small revelation: that today he was not able to take those watches apart.
Story 3.31
- The lift of fog in the city, that daily act of revelation, brought him a longing now like that of vague times in the past, of long ago in Mississippi, to see the world-there were places he longed for the sight of whose names he had forgotten.
Story 3.31
- They voted for the revelation; it had made their hearts faint, and they would assert it again.
Story 3.32
- Just how far below questions and answers, concealment and revelation, they were running now-that was still a new question, with a power of its own, waiting.
Story 4.33
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.