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/rɪvˈilɪŋ/ /rivˈilɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Reveal v. t. (past & past part. revealed; pres. part. revealing)

To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show. "Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown, She might not, would not, yet reveal her own."

Specifically, to communicate (that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction or agency).

Synonyms: To communicate; disclose; divulge; unveil; uncover; open; discover; impart; show. See Communicate. Reveal, Divulge. To reveal is literally to lift the veil, and thus make known what was previously concealed; to divulge is to scatter abroad among the people, or make publicly known. A mystery or hidden doctrine may be revealed; something long confined to the knowledge of a few is at length divulged. "Time, which reveals all things, is itself not to be discovered." "A tragic history of facts divulged."

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"Revealing" Quotes from Famous Books

... toward the northwest (where they discovered the Big Horn Mountains and revealed the natural boundaries of the Valley) the Mallet brothers were ascending the Platte, crossing the Colorado plains to Santa Fe and so revealing the natural boundaries ...

— The Frontier in American History • Frederick Jackson Turner

... This was a view of his intentions that he had not foreseen. Fortunately he could disarm his stepmother by revealing himself as the god from the machine, for she would consider it no more than just that he should use part of his inheritance for Claude's benefit. He might have made the attempt there and then had not Claude ...

— The Side Of The Angels - A Novel • Basil King

... exclamation of all. A long chain of lightning and a heavy ball of fire seemed to shoot from the sky, lighting up the whole sea, revealing, and at the same time striking, in its descent, a full-rigged brig, which, like themselves, was scudding before the gale under bare poles, a few cables' length off their port beam. The next instant, a fearful explosion, ...

— Sustained honor - The Age of Liberty Established • John R. Musick,

... circle of land and water, a light seemed to rise behind those hills, revealing their solid shapes anew, stealing silently aloft into the air, like a pale and pure northern dawn. At first he thought it must be the rising moon, but no orb appeared; and as the brilliance deepened, intensified into colour, and shot towards the ...

— Cedar Creek - From the Shanty to the Settlement • Elizabeth Hely Walshe

... he could judge afterward—Ned sat up with a start, firmly convinced that some danger was at hand. As he listened with a wildly throbbing heart, soft footsteps cracked on the pine needles outside, and then the tent flap was torn open, revealing against the lingering embers of the campfire the ...

— Canoe Boys and Campfires - Adventures on Winding Waters • William Murray Graydon

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