单词 | self-revelatory |
释义 | self-revelatoryadj. Serving to reveal one's true character, feelings, motives, etc.; self-revealing. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > [adjective] > self-revealing self-revealing1654 self-revelatory1884 self-revelative1888 1884 Sunday Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) 26 Oct. 10/4 I wish to speak of two evidences..which seem to me to be self-revelatory of a divinity which is the very essence of the Bible. 1939 Soc. Forces 17 503/2 These expressions are so self-revelatory that further comment is unnecessary. 1980 I. D. Yalom Existential Psychotherapy iv. 135 A book..in which I had been highly self-revelatory about my own anxieties and limitations. 2008 Newsweek (Nexis) 28 July 47 Poetry is, of course, the most self-revelatory of arts. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1884 |
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