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  • adjective Of, or relating to something that causes a revelation in oneself, or any given situation.

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Examples

  • Somehow she felt that the writer hadn't really come to the end, that some more dramatic and revelationary finish was intended.

    She Closed Her Eyes 2010

  • What I found inside the covers was this amazingly lush, detailed, revelationary world that reminded me, rather firmly, that restricting myself to genre reading would be just about the worst thing I could do for my mind.

    seanan_mcguire: 100 Books That Rocked My World, 2009 Edition. seanan_mcguire 2009

  • Â Either way, the twosome seem to enjoy their new status as leaders as well as their new status as, apparently, a couple, after last issues revelationary kiss.

    Review: Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 8 #29 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • The opportunity to show others your progress and the learning experiences you have been part of can be a revelationary experience for both students and parents.

    Sharing my Classroom Part 3: Grade 8 Julie Lindsay 2008

  • The opportunity to show others your progress and the learning experiences you have been part of can be a revelationary experience for both students and parents.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Julie Lindsay 2008

  • Aloud he voiced only the heart of that revelationary truth: 'Because now I won't go without her.

    The Sanctuary Sparrow Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1983

  • Unless some meteoric record reached our Earth, revelationary of intelligence on a perished world, our only hope of obtaining such evidence rests on the observation of Mars 'surface features.

    The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895

  • It's also a revelationary time for Americans of multicultural backgrounds, and as the producers of a new documentary in the making called "Gen O" see it, a time to celebrate multiracial pride. mentioned, I spent my last weekend doing just that - embracing my mixed-race heritage while in DC for the inauguration.

    Not Eating Out in New York 2009

  • Perhaps because of an arrogant desire to prove them wrong, perhaps because of the insights and realities I'd faced in a traumatic week, perhaps because of Young Higgins himself: I rode anyway with a new sharp revelationary perception of what was needed for winning, and the horse and I came home in front by four lengths to a fairly stunned silence from the people on the stands who'd backed everything else on the card but us.

    Hot Money Francis, Dick 1987

  • I nearly managed to avoid making any predictions this year after last year's farcical forecasts - $100 oil, rising nat gas prices, Susan Boyle dating, etc..) until Tom Fowler from here), so I figured I would expand on a couple of them - not because they are revelationary, but because they are worth keeping an eye on.

    Hare or the Dog? Commodities in the Year of the Rabbit - Seeking Alpha 2011

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