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The word “disclose” in literature frequently functions as a powerful vehicle for revelation—whether it is unveiling hidden truths, confessing personal emotions, or exposing secrets that alter the course of events. Authors employ it to mark the moment when what was once veiled is suddenly made clear, as seen when divine or transcendent realities are revealed [1] or when a character bravely unmasks his inner turmoil and secret plans [2, 3]. In historical narratives and philosophical treatises, it often signals the gradual uncovering of facts that redefine understanding [4, 5], while in dramatic and poetic works the act of disclosure becomes a metaphor for transformation and the confrontation of reality [6, 7]. This layered usage underscores both the intimacy and the impact of revelations, bridging the internal and external worlds of the narrative.
  1. And when we in our blindness insult humanity for its ragged appearance it sheds its disguise to disclose to us that we have insulted our God.
    — from Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore
  2. I will disclose everything, and say that I am the man, and that you are only a shadow dressed up in men's clothes.
    — from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. Andersen
  3. He paused, pondering whether to disclose or not to disclose his feeling to him.
    — from Anna Karenina by graf Leo Tolstoy
  4. Future investigation will disclose whether any of these disorders belong in the group with scurvy.
    — from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess
  5. 40 and the singular accuracy of the date seems to disclose some foresight of the rapid and destructive growth of the monster.
    — from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
  6. You will smile at my allusion, but I will disclose a secret.
    — from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  7. My maid left the room now and again, and we had plenty of time to disclose our feelings to one another.
    — from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

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