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FromMiddle Englishrevelacioun, fromOld Frenchrevelacion, fromLatinrevēlātiō(“disclosure”), fromrevēlō(“to disclose”),re(“again”) +vēlō(“to cover”); bysurface analysis,revelate +‎-ion.

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revelation (countable anduncountable,pluralrevelations)

  1. The act ofrevealing ordisclosing.
    Therevelation of the culprits' identities was cathartic for the populace.
    • 2007, Paul Zenon,Cool Card Tricks: Techniques for the Advanced Magician, page58:
      Magicians talk about therevelation at the end of a trick.
  2. Something that isrevealed.
    • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.],The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany:Peter Schöffer],→OCLC,The Revelacion off Sanct Jhon the Devine j:[1],folio cccxxj, verso:
      Therevelaciõ of Jeſus Chꝛiſte / which god gave vnto hĩ / foꝛto ſhewe vnto his ſervaunt[es] thyng[es] which muſte ſhoꝛtly come to paſſe.
    • 2007,Drew Karpyshyn,Mass Effect: Revelation‎[1],Del Rey Books,→ISBN,→OCLC,pages320–321:
      But it was much more than a mere ship. Its systems, processes, and technology were so advanced that they dwarfed every accomplishment of the Citadel species. Its grandeur and complexity rivaled the greatest creations of the Protheans—the mass relays and the Citadel. It may have even surpassed them. And if Saren could learn and understand how it worked, he could seize all that power for himself.
      He’d spent his entire life preparing for a moment like this. Everything he’d ever done—his military service, his career with the Spectres—was only a prelude to thisrevelation. Now he had found his true purpose; destiny had led him here.
    • 2013 July 26,Leo Hickman, “How algorithms rule the world”, inThe Guardian Weekly, volume189, number 7, page26:
      The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.[…]who, if anyone, is policing their use[?] Such concerns were sharpened further by the continuingrevelations about how the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been using algorithms to help it interpret the colossal amounts of data it has collected from its covert dragnet of international telecommunications.
  3. Somethingdramaticallydisclosed.
    This invention was arevelation for farmers throughout the region, who immediately adopted it.
  4. (theology) Amanifestation ofdivinetruth.
    Synonym:apocalypse
    • 2008, Rolfe King,Obstacles to Divine Revelation: God and the Reorientation of Human Reason,Bloomsbury Academic,→ISBN:
      This does not mean that God has difficulty overcoming obstacles; if one questions whetherrevelation is ‘a simple matter’, this need not refer to whether or not God has to exert himself greatly to overcome these obstacles, or whether he is grieved or suffers in some way to overcome these obstacles.
  5. Something thatturns out to be a greatsuccess.
    Coordinate term:revolution
    This invention was arevelation for farming throughout the region, where it doubled crop yields.
    • 2012 April 21, Jonathan Jurejko, “Newcastle 3-0 Stoke”, inBBC Sport:
      The 26-year-old has proved arevelation since his £10m move from Freiburg, with his 11 goals in 10 matches hauling Newcastle above Spurs, who went down toAdel Taarabt's goal in Saturday's late kick-off at Loftus Road.

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the act of revealing or disclosing
something dramatically disclosed
manifestation of divine truth

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