revelation

Noun
  1. The speech act of making something evident (synset 107228055)
    is a type of: speech act - the use of language to perform some act
    subtypes:
    • singing, tattle, telling - disclosing information or giving evidence about another
    • display - behavior that makes your feelings public
    • divulgement, divulgence - the act of disclosing something that was secret or private
    • discovery - something that is discovered
    • discovery - (law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case
    • giveaway - an unintentional disclosure
    • informing, ratting - to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors)
    • leak, news leak - unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information
    • exposure - the disclosure of something secret
    same as: disclosure, revealing
  2. An enlightening or astonishing disclosure (synset 105816110)
    is a type of: brainstorm, brainwave, insight - the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation
  3. Communication of knowledge to man by a divine or supernatural agency (synset 107227892)
    is a type of: informing, making known - a speech act that conveys information
    same as: 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 (synset 106459567)
    associated with: four horsemen - (New Testament) the four evils that will come at the end of the world: conquest rides a white horse; war a red horse; famine a black horse; plague a pale horse
    is an instance of: book - a major division of a long written composition
    is a part of: new testament - the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible
    same as: apocalypse, book of revelation, revelation of saint john the divine

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