revelatory
Americanadjective
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of, relating to, or having the characteristics of revelation.
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showing or disclosing an emotion, belief, quality, or the like (usually followed byof ).
a poem revelatory of the author's deep, personal sorrow.
Etymology
Origin of revelatory
1880–85; < Latin revēlāt ( us ) ( revelation ) + -ory 1
Example Sentences
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The San Diego Museum of Art presents a revelatory retrospective on the Spanish artist, whose work pulses with the power of the natural world and his own heritage.
Organized by the museum’s Rachel Jans, “Eduardo Chillida: Convergence” is a display possessed of a revelatory power far beyond its modest size.
“Their close co-presence brings a heartfelt, life-opening sense of well-being,” he writes, but characterizes the experience by what is missing: “There is no narrative, no crisis, no revelatory transforming of anyone’s fate or hopes.”
The show was revelatory of Caillebotte the artist, his society and the challenges he issued to it.
Current and former MIT graduate students described a range of pressures to do revelatory research.
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