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self-revealing

[ self-ri-vee-ling, self- ]

adjective

  1. displaying, exhibiting, or disclosing one's most private feelings, thoughts, etc.:

    an embarrassingly self-revealing autobiography.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of self-revealing1

First recorded in 1830–40

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Example Sentences

Promptly he repented, ashamed both of his anger and such self-revealing expression of it.

“Glory” is the splendour and light of the self-revealing God.

This is the most soberly, self-revealing letter written by Eugene Field that has come within my ken.

In the strengthening and self-revealing solitude of her garden, this glowing summer day, Esmé sat trying to make up her mind.

So just in so far as the sensory individual is less active, to that degree he is less expressive, less self-revealing.

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