1. (

• disclosure ,
• revelation ,
• revealing

) the speech act of making something evident ;

2. (

• revelation

) an enlightening or astonishing disclosure ;

3. (

• revelation ,
• divine_revelation

) communication of knowledge to man by a divine or supernatural agency ;

4. (

• Revelation ,
• Revelation_of_Saint_John_the_Divine ,
• Apocalypse ,
• Book_of_Revelation

) 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 ;