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    [Noun]  | "apoc*a*lypse" | \ ə-ˈpä-kə-ˌlips \


    1: one of the Jewish and Christian writings of 200 b.c. to a.d. 150 marked by pseudonymity, symbolic imagery, and the expectation of an imminent cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil and raises the righteous to life in a messianic kingdom

    2: revelation

    3: something viewed as a prophetic revelation

    Origin: before 12th century ;

     Middle English Apocalipse "Revelation (the New Testament book)," borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Late Latin apocalypsis "revelation, the Book of Revelation," borrowed from Greek apokálypsis "uncovering, disclosure, revelation," from apokalyp-, stem of apokalýptein "to uncover, disclose, reveal" (from apo- {see: |apo-|apo-} + kalýptein "to cover, protect, conceal," of uncertain origin) + -sis {see: |-sis|-sis};

      * Note : Greek kalýptein is associated in older handbooks with Indo-European *ḱel- "conceal" (see: {conceal|conceal}), though neither the vocalism nor the supposed extension *-up- are easily explicable.;

    [Noun]  | "rev*e*la*tion" | \ ˌre-və-ˈlā-shən \


    1: an act of revealing or communicating divine truth

    2: something that is revealed by God to humans

    3: an act of revealing to view or making known

    Origin: 14th century ;

     Middle English revelacioun, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin revelation-, revelatio, from Latin revelare to reveal;

    [Noun]  | "the apocalypse" 


    1: the end or destruction of the world especially as described in the Christian Bible

    [Noun]  | "apocalypse" 


    1: a sudden violent event that brings about great loss or destruction;


      * e.g., " ... the fear that the next global pandemic could be an apocalypse of biblical proportions "



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    [Noun]  | "revelation" 


    1: the act or an instance of making known something previously unknown or concealed;


      * e.g., " ... the revelation of the movie star's secret marriage by the tabloids "



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     [ "apocalypse" ]

    1: A mythical end of the world, uncertain when it is going to happen, several sects disagree about it: Jehovah's Witnesses - When Jesus makes a second coming.

      * e.g.,  ... Some people seriously think apocalypse is coming after this election, not even kidding. 

     [ "apocalypse" ]

    2: Donald Trump supporters - When Hillary Clinton becomes President of the United States.

     [ "apocalypse" ]

    3: Hillary Clinton supporters - When Donald Trump becomes President of the United States.

     [ "apocalypse" ]

    1: An Apocalypse (Greek: Apokálypsis; "lifting of the veil" or "revelation") is a disclosure of something hidden from the majority of mankind in an era dominated by falsehood and misconception, the lifting of the veil. Illumination.

      * e.g.,  ... When the masses awaken from their sleep and discover that the world is not a corporate owned duality, this shall begin our apocalypse. 

     [ "apocalypse" ]

    1: The contrapositive relationship between aesthetic elements (lines) and aesthetic attributes (colors, space) in which human beings are pawns. Schematized in Goethe's Theory of Colors.

      * e.g.,  ... Goethe conjectured that colors and spaces (implicit lines) are contraposed to EXplicit lines in linear time and this contraposition is only manifested to human beings as cultural conflict. Thus human beings are not agentic actors in this conflict but are FUNCTIONS in the apocalypse. 

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    1: An apocalypse is the end of the world as we know it. Everything and everyone will die, and there will be no more planet Earth.

      * e.g.,  ... The movie Dawn Of The Dead is a great example of an apocalypse 

     [ "apocalypse" ]

    1: the day that george bush gets reelected, so i guess the apocalypse has already happened

      * e.g.,  ... a monkey being reelected? how can so many people be so stupid? 

     [ "apocalypse" ]

    1: Something that will never happen while all of us are alive.

      * e.g.,  ... Don't believe people who scare you into thinking of the apocalypse happening anytime soon. 

     [ "apocalypse" ]

    1: The end of the world. See also apoopalypse

      * e.g.,  ... When fire rained down from the sky, we feared that it was a sign of the apocalypse 

     [ "apocalypse" ]

    1:  When the retarded and pathetic efforts set forth by humanity are ended.

      * e.g.,  ... Dude, when's the apocalypse coming? 

     [ "apocalypse" ]

    1: the end of the world.

      * e.g.,  ... Man, white American Christians sure do look forward to this event. They should really get a hobby. 

     [ "apocalypse" ]

    1: The End of you and me.

      * e.g.,  ... Its The apocalypse! Run for your life! 

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