revelation (n.)

  1. the speech act of making something evident

    [ Syn: disclosure , revealing ]

  2. an enlightening or astonishing disclosure

  3. communication of knowledge to man by a divine or supernatural agency

    [ Syn: divine revelation ]

  4. the last book of the New Testament; contains visionary descriptions of heaven and of conflicts between good and evil and of the end of the world; attributed to Saint John the Apostle

    [ Syn: revelation , revelation of saint john the divine , apocalypse , book of revelation ]

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