Revealing vs Disclose - What's the difference?
revealing | disclose |
Something revealed; a revelation.
* 1836 , William Tait, ?Mrs. Christian Isobel Johnstone, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (volume 3, page 113)
(obsolete) To open up, unfasten.
* Francis Bacon
To uncover, physically expose to view.
* Woodward
* 1972 , Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things , McGraw-Hill 1972, p. 13:
To expose to the knowledge of others; to make known, state openly, reveal.
* Alexander Pope
* Addison
As verbs the difference between revealing and disclose
is that revealing is while disclose is (obsolete) to open up, unfasten.As nouns the difference between revealing and disclose
is that revealing is something revealed; a revelation while disclose is (obsolete) a disclosure.As an adjective revealing
is of clothing: allowing more than is usual to be seen.revealing
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(head)Noun
(en noun)- In these letters, and the remembered conversations, we have fuller revealings of the inner man, greater depth of discovery into that vast and labyrinthine mind
disclose
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(disclos)- The ostrich layeth her eggs under sand, where the heat of the discloseth them.
- The shells being broken, the stone included in them is thereby disclosed and set at liberty.
- Its brown curtain was only half drawn, disclosing the elegant legs, clad in transparent black, of a female seated inside.
- Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose .
- If I disclose my passion, / Our friendship's at an end.