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 Rev·e·la·tion n.
 1. The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them.
 2. That which is revealed.
 3. Theol. (a) The act of revealing divine truth. (b) That which is revealed by God to man; esp., the Bible.
    By revelation he made known unto me the mystery, as I wrote afore in few words.   --Eph. iii. 3.
 4. Specifically, the last book of the sacred canon, containing the prophecies of St. John; the Apocalypse or Book of Revelation or The Revelation of Saint John.
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 Book of Revelation
      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 [syn: Revelation, Revelation of Saint
          John the Divine, Apocalypse]