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REVEALING
revealing, telling, telltale
(adjective) disclosing unintentionally something concealed; “a telling smile”; “a telltale panel of lights”; “a telltale patch of oil on the water marked where the boat went down”
revealing
(adjective) showing or making known; “a revealing glance”
disclosure, revelation, revealing
(noun) the speech act of making something evident
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
revealing (comparative more revealing, superlative most revealing)
Informative.
Of clothing: allowing more than is usual to be seen.
Verb
revealing
present participle of reveal
Noun
revealing (plural revealings)
Something revealed; a revelation.
Anagrams
• Graveline, laveering
Source: Wiktionary
REVEAL
Re*veal", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Revealed; p. pr. & vb. n. Revealing.] Etym: [F. révéler, L. revelare, revelatum, to unveil, reveal; pref. re- re- + velare to veil; fr. velum a veil. See Veil.]
1. To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show. Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown, She might not, would not, yet reveal her own. Waller.
2. Specifically, to communicate (that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction or agency).
Syn.
– To communicate; disclose; divulge; unveil; uncover; open; discover; impart; show. See Communicate.
– Reveal, Divulge. To reveal is literally to lift the veil, and thus make known what was previously concealed; to divulge is to scatter abroad among the people, or make publicly known. A mystery or hidden doctrine may be revealed; something long confined to the knowledge of a few is at length divulged. "Time, which reveals all things, is itself not to be discovered." Locke. "A tragic history of facts divulged." Wordsworth.
Re*veal", n.
1. A revealing; a disclosure. [Obs.]
2. (Arch.)
Definition: The side of an opening for a window, doorway, or the like, between the door frame or window frame and the outer surface of the wall; or, where the opening is not filled with a door, etc., the whole thickness of the wall; the jamb. [Written also revel.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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