Definition of "revelatory" [revelatory]

• Of, relating to, or containing a revelation: "the distinction between Mrs. and Miss and its concomitant revelatory features” ( Mario Pei). (adjective)

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• "The most revelatory is I Am an American Soldier: One Year in Iraq with the 101st Airborne."
• "(I also agree that the police, corporately and at the higher echelons, have lost sight of what matters; but this isn’t revelatory, is it?)"
• "She has still put it together in revelatory ways, underscoring the generation-wide impact of her subjects’ songs and stories ...."