Definition of "self-revelation" []

• Revelation of one's thoughts, emotions, or attitudes, intentionally or unintentionally. (noun)

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• "That night, he shared thoughts and feelings he probably never would have “except that all the elements of the time and place bent themselves toward sympathetic understanding, and even to bits of self-revelation”:"
• "We see, for instance, Mr. Ferguson's son agonizing to deliver the requisite self-revelation for a college application essay the author calls this process "the Great Extrusion"."
• "If you have been searching for God in your own way, then I ask you to consider reading what Christianity considers to be the self-revelation of God, the Bible."