 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
revelation
noun
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
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 of Saint John the Divine}, {Apocalypse},
{Book of Revelation}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Revelation \Rev'e*la"tion\, noun [F. r['e]v['e]lation, L.
revelatio. See {Reveal}.]
1. The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others
what was before unknown to them.
2. That which is revealed.
3. (Theol.)
(a) The act of revealing divine truth.
(b) That which is revealed by God to man; esp., the Bible.
By revelation he made known unto me the mystery,
as I wrote afore in few words. --Eph. iii. 3.
4. Specifically, the last book of the sacred canon,
containing the prophecies of St. John; the {Apocalypse} or
{Book of Revelation} or {The Revelation of Saint John}.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
147 Moby Thesaurus words for "revelation":
Christophany, Satanophany, admission, afflatus, angelophany,
announcement, apocalypse, apparition, appearance, appearing,
arising, astonishment, avatar, baring, blockbuster, blow, bomb,
bombshell, bringing to light, bulletin, casual discovery, catch,
catching, chance discovery, coming, coming into being,
coming-forth, communique, confession, declaration, detection,
determination, determining, direct communication, discernibleness,
disclosing, disclosure, discovering, discovery, dissemination,
distinguishment, divine inspiration, divine revelation,
earthshaker, embodiment, emergence, epiphany, espial, evidence,
evincement, excavation, exhumation, expose, exposition, exposure,
expression, eye-opener, find, finding, finding out, forthcoming,
incarnation, indication, information, inspiration, invention,
issuance, joker, kicker, laying bare, leak, locating, location,
lucky strike, manifestation, materialization, materializing,
mystical experience, mysticism, news, observability, occurrence,
opening, oracle, outcrop, outcropping, patefaction, perceptibility,
peripeteia, pneumatophany, presentation, proclamation,
pronouncement, proof, prophecy, publication, realization,
recognition, rediscovery, removing the veil, revealing, revealment,
rise, rising, seeableness, serendipity, shocker, showing,
showing forth, showing up, showup, spotting, staggerer, startler,
statement, strike, stripping, surprisal, surprise, surprise ending,
surprise package, surprise party, switch, the seen, the visible,
theophania, theophany, theopneustia, theopneusty, thunderbolt,
thunderclap, treasure trove, trouvaille, trove, uncloaking,
uncovering, unearthing, unfolding, unfoldment, unmasking,
unveiling, unwrapping, visibility, visibleness, vision, visuality,
what is revealed
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
REVELATION, noun A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed
all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know
nothing.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Revelation
an uncovering, a bringing to light of that which had been
previously wholly hidden or only obscurely seen. God has been
pleased in various ways and at different times (Heb. 1:1) to
make a supernatural revelation of himself and his purposes and
plans, which, under the guidance of his Spirit, has been
committed to writing. (See WORD OF {GOD}.) The
Scriptures are not merely the "record" of revelation; they are
the revelation itself in a written form, in order to the
accurate presevation and propagation of the truth.
Revelation and inspiration differ. Revelation is the
supernatural communication of truth to the mind; inspiration
(q.v.) secures to the teacher or writer infallibility in
communicating that truth to others. It renders its subject the
spokesman or prophet of God in such a sense that everything he
asserts to be true, whether fact or doctrine or moral principle,
is true, infallibly true.
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