noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
divine intervention/providence/revelation/guidance etc
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faith in divine providence
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divine power
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divine love
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
divine
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On the one side the appeal was to reason; on the other, to faith and special divine revelation .
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To say that the Church was the sole conduit of divine revelation was to dictate terms to the Almighty.
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It represents a direct divine revelation that delivers a capacity for understanding beyond the parameters of normal discourse.
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This, if you like, is divine revelation ...
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Those with such an awakened spirit might be blessed in this life with divine dreams and revelations .
further
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She was far from confident that she possessed the moral courage to endure further revelations from that dark side of her moon.
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While the criminal investigation is over, the case could produce further revelations in upcoming court sessions, sources said.
late
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But that lay in tatters last night after the latest revelations .
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Indeed, Greene's latest revelations about his faith-non-faith appear quite knowingly hilarious.
new
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Each new revelation was greeted with raucous shouts of impatience.
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Perhaps, some thought, a new revelation or a new community was needed.
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Two of the New Testament revelations are ambiguously reported.
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He pulled out drawer after drawer, his frenzy building with each new revelation of supposedly missing clothes.
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I remembered Neil telling me that his biggest problem with the book was that there were no new , exciting revelations .
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And at the dawning of a new revelation change and growth will be painful, and at times confusing.
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Surely my family's experience and this new revelation can not be a coincidence.
recent
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The recent investigations, revelations , and indictments have forced the industry to change the way it conducted business for 150 years.
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But alarming as the recent revelations are, the message should not be to forget about life insurance.
■ VERB
embarrass
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Clinton was forced to withdraw several nominees due to embarrassing revelations over their political stances or child-care issues.
follow
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Recruitment was a major source of anxiety following Boer War revelations about the high rate of recruits rejected on grounds of ill-health.
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Talking of bank-notes and following Barleycorn's exclusive revelation of the Corporate Lada Initiative, we can reveal another brilliant money-saver.
receive
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Some said that dating should begin with the moment when the Prophet first received the revelation .
shock
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By 1923 the country was very prosperous and the general public did not seem to be particularly shocked by the revelations .
startle
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One of those youngsters was Horton, and he would later expose another crop of dreamers to that startling sense of revelation .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
blinding realization/clarity/revelation etc
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Because then it was that she knew, with blinding clarity, what had been there for some time now.
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It had come to him as a blinding revelation when he was but a small child.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Each new revelation received extensive news coverage.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bangor have been a revelation this season and are still pushing for success on three fronts, unlike the poor old Blues.
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But the major revelation is the Symphony No. 4, which is conducted by the then-44-year-old Kurt Sanderling.
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But tonight's lesson, dealing with electrical fittings, had been a revelation .
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It was the single greatest revelation of his religious life.
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Recently I had this revelation that my life is like stretch pants.
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The revelation of his adultery scuttled his chances of replacing Gen.
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The effusions of Vaneigem have an air of mystical revelation which is even more intense in recent publications.
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To do this he did not need to make any apparently arbitrary appeal to particular revelation or received authority.