revealment

Definitions

The act of revealing something; revelation.

Examples

“I know⟳ Marianne's heart: I know⟳ that she dearly loves me, and that I shall not be the last⟳ to whom the affair is made known, when circumstances make⟳ the revealment of it eligible.”

“Alas! how much guile did that seeming desperation hide⟳, which, as the result⟳ has now shown, though it may have⟳ come⟳ from the heart, never afterward returned to the same, and made manifest later that its revealment on the face⟳ was only a lure and a delusion!”

“1906-1907, Mark⟳ Twain, Chapters from My Autobiography Autobiography […] inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth […]”

“And it's the teasing game of psychological revealment and concealment that makes Dorian Gray such a gripping tale more than a century after its publication.”

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