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[ ri-vel-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee, rev-uh-luh- ] / rɪˈvɛl əˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i, ˈrɛv ə lə- / SEE SYNONYMS FOR revelatory ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectiveof, relating to, or having the characteristics of revelation. showing or disclosing an emotion, belief, quality, or the like (usually followed by of): a poem revelatory of the author's deep, personal sorrow. Origin of revelatory1880–85; <Latin revēlāt(us) (see revelation) + -ory1 Words nearby revelatoryrevel, revelation, Revelation, Book of, revelationist, revelator, revelatory, revelry, Revels, revenant, revenge, revengeful Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for revelatoryWhen I read the story I thought it was revelatory and completely the opposite of what I thought the script to be. Eddie Redmayne’s Time Has Come: On His Heartrending Turn as Stephen Hawking and Benedict Bromance|Marlow Stern|November 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST The “favorite moments” section was cute, if not all that revelatory. ‘The View’ Reunited 11 Co-Hosts and Everyone Came Out Alive|Kevin Fallon|May 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST In the way of Aeneas, Bugs was possessed by a revelatory calling to found a great city. The Stacks: Harold Conrad Was Many Things, But He Was Never, Ever Dull|Mark Jacobson|March 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST When an undergraduate does something extraordinary and revelatory, my eyes do get wet. Anthony Grafton: How I Write|Noah Charney|July 17, 2013|DAILY BEAST
That breakdown of dualism, that honesty, is so important and revelatory. The Modern ‘Lolita’: Dramatizing the Mind of a Female Pedophile in Alissa Nutting’s ‘Tampa’|Roxane Gay|June 28, 2013|DAILY BEAST His work was to have borne the title, "My Revelatory Episodes." Delsarte System of Oratory|Various These are full of variety and of actual novelty, now of startling discord, now of revelatory beauty. Contemporary American Composers|Rupert Hughes Then came the brusque apotheosis of 1904 at the Autumn Salon, the most revelatory of his unique gift thus far made. In mounting excitement, he read the coldly beautiful, the terrible and revelatory poem through to the end. What Rough Beast?|Jefferson Highe
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