revealing
English
Etymology
From Middle English reveling; equivalent to reveal + -ing.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -iːlɪŋ
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Adjective
revealing (comparative more revealing, superlative most revealing)
- Informative.
- a revealing analysis
- Of clothing: allowing more than is usual to be seen.
Translations
of clothing
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Noun
revealing (plural revealings)
- Something revealed; a revelation.
- 1836, William Tait, Mrs. Christian Isobel Johnstone, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (volume 3, page 113)
- In these letters, and the remembered conversations, we have fuller revealings of the inner man, greater depth of discovery into that vast and labyrinthine mind […]
- 1836, William Tait, Mrs. Christian Isobel Johnstone, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (volume 3, page 113)
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