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revealing

/ɹɪˈvilɪŋ/ adjective C1
  1. Informative; providing new information. · a revealing analysis
  2. Allowing more of the body to be seen than is usual. · Her shirt is rather revealing.
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More than once she thought of revealing all to her grandmother, and she would not have hesitated a moment, if Maximilian Morrel had been named Albert de Morcerf or Raoul de Château-Renaud; but Morrel was of plebeian extraction, and Valentine knew how the haughty Marquise de Saint-Méran despised all who were not noble.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 748 · C1
To know that she had the power of revealing what would so exceedingly astonish Jane, and must, at the same time, so highly gratify whatever of her own vanity she had not yet been able to reason away, was such a temptation to openness as nothing could have conquered, but the state of indecision in which she remained as to the extent of what she should communicate, and her fear, if she once entered on the subject, of being hurried into repeating something of Bingley, which might only grieve her sister further.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 252 · B2
My friend’s plans were gradually revealing themselves.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 20 · C1
“Tell me,” cried Danglars, in a tone whose bitterness Harpagon alone has been capable of revealing—“tell me that you wish to despoil me of all; it will be sooner over than devouring me piecemeal.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1083 · C1

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