Both Uses
revelation
in
Music From Spain, by Eudora Welty
(Edited)
- He clung to one small revelation: that today he was not able to take those watches apart.
*revelation = something previously unknown; or making such a thing known
- 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.
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.