'Revelation' definitions:
Definition of 'revelation'
(from WordNet)
noun
The speech act of making something evident [syn: disclosure, revelation, revealing]
noun
An enlightening or astonishing disclosure
noun
Communication of knowledge to man by a divine or supernatural agency [syn: revelation, divine revelation]
noun
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]
Definition of 'Revelation'
From: GCIDE
- Revelation \Rev`e*la"tion\, n. [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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which is revealed. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Theol.) (a) The act of revealing divine truth. (b) That which is revealed by God to man; esp., the Bible. [1913 Webster]
- By revelation he made known unto me the mystery, as I wrote afore in few words. --Eph. iii. 3. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'revelation'
From: 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.
Synonyms of 'revelation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Christophany,
- 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,
- Satanophany,
- 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
Words containing 'Revelation'
- Revel,
- Revelate,
- Revelator,
- Reveled,
- Reveler,
- Reveling,
- Revelled,
- Revellent,
- Revelling,
- Revelment,
- Revelous,
- revelational,
- reveller,
- Book of Revelation,
- Master of the revels,
- Revel master,
- divine revelation,
- drunken reveler,
- drunken reveller,
- revelation book of,
- revelation of christ,
- Revel-rout,
- The Revelation of Saint John,
- revelation of saint john the divine