revelator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revelators
Etymology: From Middle English revelator, from Latin revēlātor; by surface analysis, revelate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: revealer; discloser, divulger; uncoverer, unveiler; discoverer; clairvoyant, seer, prophet
text: But it was Paul to whom the Lord revealed the whole doctrine of the mystery; and we firmly believe he thus became the revelator to all men of these glorious things connected with this mystery.
ref: 1994, [1945], William R. Newell, Romans: Verse-By-Verse, page 570:
text: We noted in earlier chapters that the Twelve, beginning in Joseph Smith's day, were sustained as prophets, seers, and revelators, and that the Quorum of the Twelve were sustained as the First Presidency of the Church following the death of Brigham Young.
ref: 2000, John A. Tvedtnes, Organize My Kingdom: A History of Restored Priesthood, page 235:
text: They caught the Katy
And left me a mule to ride
The fortune lady
Came along, she walked beside
But every word seemed to date her
Time's the revelator
The revelator
[…]
Queen of fakes and imitators
Time's the revelator
ref: 2001, Gillian Welch, “Revelator”, in Time (The Revelator), performed by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings:
text: Alvin Toffler or George Gilder might have been more likely choices for back-page revelators, but Negroponte ponied up $75,000 in seed money when the Old Media barons were showing Wired founders Louis Rossetto and Jane Metcalfe the door.
ref: 2001, Mark Dery, “24: Bit Rot”, in Peter Ludlow, editor, Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias, page 389:
text: A Revelator song notable for its classic uses of balance and incremental repetition, for its fusion of New Testament apocalyptic images, its folk diction and syntax fitted out as pulpit rhetoric and prophecy, and its sensitivity to simultaneously occurring dimensions of time and space.
The vision of the speaker, superimposed on the apocalyptic vision of John the Revelator, includes all time and eternity: the remote past during which the Revelator, from exile on Patmos, wrote his letters to the seven churches; the immediate past of the dead mother who now dwells on the island with the prophet; the present of the "leader" or preacher who, as head of the church to which the speaker belongs, has received a "letter"—the Book of Revelation itself—from John; the eternal present in which the speaker and the prophet coexist spiritually; and the rapidly approaching future, the last days which John prophesied.
ref: 2002, Olivia Solomon, Jack Solomon, editors, "Honey in the Rock": The Ruby Pickens Tartt Collection of Religious Folk Songs from Sumter County, Alabama, Paperback edition, page 12:
hypernyms: agent#Noun
entity#Noun
glosses: A person or personified agent who reveals; especially, one who makes a divine revelation.
Related terms: word: revealing
word: revealingness
word: revelate
word: Revelation
word: revelation
word: revelatoriness
word: revelatory
word: indicator
english: ecclesiastical title, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
translation: ecclesiastical title, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
word: prophet, seer, and revelator