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Definition of Revelatory
1. Adjective. (usually followed by 'of') pointing out or revealing clearly. "Actions indicative of fear"
Similar to: Revealing
Derivative terms: Indicate, Indicate, Indicate, Suggest
2. Adjective. Prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom.
Similar to: Prophetic, Prophetical
Derivative terms: Apocalypse, Apocalypse, Reveal
Definition of Revelatory
1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or in the nature of a revelation ¹
2. Adjective. Prophetic (especially of doom); apocalyptic ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Revelatory
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Revelatory
Literary usage of Revelatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wake Up the Lord Is Returning by Alf Droy (2002)
"I had been fasting for three weeks whilst seeking for a revelatory dream'42 over
how the lands of Earth were repopulated with people and animals after the ..."
2. The Methodist Review (1890)
"and especially their self-consciousness while under the divine superintendence
in their revelatory work. We must also admit that the mind of the writer ..."
3. Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons Preached in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn by Henry Ward Beecher (1875)
"Joy is revelatory, and sorrow is revelatory. Hindrances, burdens, all manner ot
sufferings, affiliations of various kinds,—these all tend to reveal the ..."
4. The New Idealism by May Sinclair (1922)
"And this is "a way of saying" that it is "relevant to the object, that it has a
sort of revelatory identity •with the object, that it contains its structure ..."
5. The New Idealism by May Sinclair (1922)
"And this is "a way of saying" that it is "relevant to the object, that it has a
sort of revelatory identity with the ..."
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