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revelation
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Another Country
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- Everything seemed to be swollen, thrusting and shifting and changing, about to burst into music or into flame or revelation.
p. 143.4 *revelation = something previously unknown; or making such a thing known
- While offering in return (for she knew the rules) revelations intended to pacify and also intended to frustrate him; to frustrate, that is, any attempt on his part to strike deeper into that incredible country in which, like the princess of fairy tales, sealed in a high tower and guarded by beasts, bewitched and exiled, she paced her secret round of secret days.†
p. 172.9
- He encounters, because he must encounter, those people who see his secrecy before they see anything else, and who drag these secrets out of him; sometimes with the intention of using them against him, sometimes with more benevolent intent; but, whatever the intent, the moment is awful and the accumulating revelation is an unspeakable anguish.
p. 199.4revelation = something previously unknown; or making such a thing known
- What had always been hidden was to him, that day, revealed and it did not matter that, fifteen years later, he sat in an armchair, overlooking a foreign sea, still struggling to find the grace which would allow him to bear that revelation.
p. 206.8
- For the meaning of revelation is that what is revealed is true, and must be borne.
p. 206.8
- He loved Eric: it was a great revelation.
p. 387.6
- It begins with revelations.†
p. 388.2
- "More revelations," Eric grinned.†
p. 388.3
- He stared at it sourly, thinking More revelations, and picked up the receiver.†
p. 393.8
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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(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.