All 4 Uses

revelation
in
The Golden Apples
(Edited)

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 handpainted 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 4

revelation = something previously unknown; or making such a thing known
He clung to one small revelation: that today he was not able to take those watches apart.
Story 6 *
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 6
They voted for the revelation; it had made their hearts faint, and they would assert it again.
Story 7

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.