Dictionary definition for: Revelation
1. (n) the speech act of making something evident
2. (n) an enlightening or astonishing disclosure
3. (n) communication of knowledge to man by a divine or supernatural agency
4. (n) 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
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