"revelatrix" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1873, [Félix M.] Philpin de Rivières, translated by Kenelm Digby Beste, A May Chaplet, and Other Verses for the Month of Mary, London: R. Washbourne, page 83:",
          "text": "REVELATRIX [translating révélatrice]. I am the mother of fair love, and of fear, and of knowledge, and of holy hope. Ecclesiasticus xxiv. 24. Who shall declare the deep abyss of might, / The riches, the magnificence, the height / Of God the Father, whom the heavens bless? / Tis thine, the Angels’ Queen, / To tell all thou hast seen, / Thou mirror of supernal loveliness.",
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          "ref": "1890, [Emile] Bougaud, “The First-fruits of Devotion to the Sacred Heart—The Church of France Vivified in the Rays of the Sacred Heart—Beatification of Blessed Margaret Mary”, in a Visitandine of Baltimore, transl., Life of Blessed Margaret Mary Alacoque (Revelations of the Sacred Heart to Blessed Margaret Mary), New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: Benziger Brothers, page 315:",
          "text": "But it was now time for her to rise to our altars, that the glory of the revelatrix might show forth resplendently the beauty of the revelation.",
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          "ref": "1969, Arts liberaux et philosophie, page 215:",
          "text": "Mathematics, counseled Thomas Bradwardine, should be allowed to exercise the authority which is its proper due. For it is, he claimed “the revelatrix of untainted truth, has brought to light every hidden secret, and carries the key to all subtle letters.”",
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          "ref": "1983, M. Darrol Bryant, Donald W. Dayton, editors, The Coming Kingdom: Essays in American Millennialism & Eschatology, →ISBN, page 73:",
          "text": "Ann herself was the revelatrix and, as Jesus had been in the First Appearing of the Christ-Spirit, the pioneer and perfectress of the faith and the first-born of many sisters.",
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          "ref": "2000, Thomas Cleary, Sartaz Aziz, Twilight Goddess: Spiritual Feminism and Feminine Spirituality, →ISBN, page 24:",
          "text": "Tara is the source of all light, effused Brahma, and the revelatrix of the Vedas, or “orthodox” bodies of Brahminic Hindu lore.",
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          "ref": "2002, Diana Athill, Yesterday Morning, London: Granta Books, page 149:",
          "text": "The revelatrix was Marie Stopes, that absurd – even monstrous – woman who yet did more for her fellow-women than almost anyone else in the twentieth century.",
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          "ref": "2005, Encyclopedia of Religion, page 6996:",
          "text": "There is no doubt that the pantheon of Parmenides is predominantly feminine. In particular the two principal divinities, the inspired revelatrix of the proem and the omnipotent one in the center of the heavens, are goddesses.",
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          "ref": "2007, J. L. Lightfoot, The Sibylline Oracles: With Introduction, Translation, and Commentary on the First and Second Books, Oxford University Press, pages 136, 152, and 326:",
          "text": "[…]; the Sibyl, from a pagan prophetess of doom to a revelatrix of elaborate Judaeo-Christian eschatology.[…]Once set within this context, the Sibyl can in fact be seen as standing in a mainstream reinterpretation of prophecy, and the accommodations which have been made between her and other visionaries and seers almost smooth away—even if they do not efface altogether––—the principal oddity, the choice of a non-biblical figure as revelatrix.[…]She is a recipient of revelation vis-à-vis God, a revelatrix vis-à-vis mortals.",
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          "ref": "2014, Georgina L. Jardim, Recovering the Female Voice in Islamic Scripture: Women and Silence (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies Series), Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 104:",
          "text": "It was shown that the subjectivity of women demonstrated the depersonalized logic of the androcentric universe even where religious agency for women, such as the function of nubuwah (prophethood) or revelatrix, is the aspiration.",
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          "ref": "2020, Dylan M. Burns, “Jewish Sapiential Traditions in the Nag Hammadi Library”, in Samuel L. Adams, Matthew Goff, editors, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Wisdom Literature, Wiley Blackwell, →ISBN, page 424:",
          "text": "Some form of this passage is also preserved in Hyp. Arch. (NHC II 89.14–17) and Thund. (NHC VI 13.19–[1]4.1), which has led some to regard the revelatrix of Thund. to be not Sophia, but Eve or a composite of the two – perhaps the same Eve of the legendary Gospel of Eve[…].",
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