Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Revelation of one's thoughts, emotions, or attitudes, intentionally or unintentionally.
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Examples
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He is also denied much opportunity for self-revelation since the scene with his dying mother, so crucial to the movie, is here reduced to nothing.
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I now know this moment as grace -- the spontaneous, unwarranted, self-revelation of spirit: God's wake-up call.
Rabbi Alan Lurie: Why I Love Religion Rabbi Alan Lurie 2011
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If you have been searching for God in your own way, then I ask you to consider reading what Christianity considers to be the self-revelation of God, the Bible.
Archive 2009-06-01 Jesse Wisnewski 2009
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Credal differences result from the diverse reactions of men following their own conscientious conceptions of the truth in relation to God's self-revelation.
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What we "make up" as fiction is less likely to be tainted by the usual human defences against self-revelation and self-knowledge.
All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion by Lisa Appignanesi – review 2011
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If you have been searching for God in your own way, then I ask you to consider reading what Christianity considers to be the self-revelation of God, the Bible.
The Story of Christianity Explains All Others Jesse Wisnewski 2009
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That night, he shared thoughts and feelings he probably never would have “except that all the elements of the time and place bent themselves toward sympathetic understanding, and even to bits of self-revelation”:
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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That night, he shared thoughts and feelings he probably never would have “except that all the elements of the time and place bent themselves toward sympathetic understanding, and even to bits of self-revelation”:
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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We see, for instance, Mr. Ferguson's son agonizing to deliver the requisite self-revelation for a college application essay the author calls this process "the Great Extrusion".
A Craving for Acceptance Daniel Akst 2011
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Such dialogue is however both sensible and mutually beneficial since particularly between Jews and Christians the fact of an historical self-revelation of God is not in dispute, even if there remain diverse convictions about the scope of that revelation, that is about its culmination in the person and mission of Jesus Christ.
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