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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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... separation of the kingdom of God, revealing itself only in freedom and love; and national life, founded on law, order and obedience, he refers interest and tithes to the province of severe human righteousness. Beyond dispute, it would aid the government in disposing of this matter; but just ...

— The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli • Johann Hottinger

... entered the schoolroom, outside which she had been holding this colloquy. The powerful sun of high summer was filling the room with barred light through the Venetian blinds, and revealing a rather confused mass of the appliances of study, interspersed with saucers of water in which were bathing paper photographs, and every shelf of books had a fringe of others on glass set up to dry. On the table lay a paper of hooks, a three-tailed artificial minnow, ...

— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge

... him her simple story; unavoidably revealing in it the hardships of her lot. "You must needs see, good Father," she concluded, "that I cannot serve God ...

— For the Master's Sake - A Story of the Days of Queen Mary • Emily Sarah Holt

... revealing no secret to say that a drowning man sees his whole past unfurl before him like a panorama. So little, however, was I, now on the eve of a great happiness, like a drowning man, that nothing whatever passed ...

— My Lady Nicotine - A Study in Smoke • J. M. Barrie

... was carried on mainly below the surface on both sides, by a process of mining and counter-mining. Henry was well served by Sir Robert Clifford and others, who wormed themselves into the confidence of the Yorkist plotters, revealing what they learnt to the King. When the time was ripe (January, 1495), Henry's hand fell suddenly on the unsuspecting conspirators in England; whose chiefs, including Sir William Stanley, who was supposed to be one of the King's most trusted supporters, were sent to the block. ...

— England Under the Tudors • Arthur D. Innes

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