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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, or containing a revelation.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the nature or character of a revelation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of, pertaining to, or in the nature of a revelation
  • adjective Prophetic (especially of doom); apocalyptic

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly
  • adjective prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom

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Examples

  • The most revelatory is I Am an American Soldier: One Year in Iraq with the 101st Airborne.

    GreenCine Daily: Tribeca, 5/2. 2007

  • She has still put it together in revelatory ways, underscoring the generation-wide impact of her subjects’ songs and stories ....

    An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008

  • (I also agree that the police, corporately and at the higher echelons, have lost sight of what matters; but this isn’t revelatory, is it?)

    Gary Newlove « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • William McNeil, Plagues & Peoples: This had a kind of revelatory quality to me, the idea that everything you thought was important about history was actually kind of trivial and the real determinants of human destiny are something else entirely.

    Matthew Yglesias » Influential Books 2010

  • Interviewer Ryan Tubridy sought the advice of Jon Snow ahead of the interview but was warned it would be difficult to extract anything 'revelatory' out of Tony Blair.

    Tony Blair interview greeted by Iraq war protesters and Jedward fans Carroll in Dublin 2010

  • As for John Leech's office - are you expecting some kind of revelatory comment from me on that?

    Dear Returning Officer: Check Leech John Bull Set 2008

  • Here's a quiet little poem by one of my favorite poets, Eamon Grennan, which demonstrates, in its patient, painterly way, how an accumulation of sense-based details can develop a kind of revelatory momentum.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Bruce Schauble 2007

  • Here's a quiet little poem by one of my favorite poets, Eamon Grennan, which demonstrates, in its patient, painterly way, how an accumulation of sense-based details can develop a kind of revelatory momentum.

    A Few Facts Bruce Schauble 2007

  • The latter half of Cult of Flesh is basically a series of sexual encounters that are "revelatory" in the worst sense--in the sense that they prompt the characters to spout long passages at each other that blend faux-Satanism with poor paraphrases of Norman O.

    Archive 2005-04-03 2005

  • The latter half of Cult of Flesh is basically a series of sexual encounters that are "revelatory" in the worst sense--in the sense that they prompt the characters to spout long passages at each other that blend faux-Satanism with poor paraphrases of Norman O.

    CULT OF FLESH by Hugh Knox (Holloway House 1970) 2005

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