"patefaction" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Latin patefactio, from patefacere (“to open”), from patere (“to lie open”) + facere (“to make”).",
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          "text": "Spirit of Manifestation or patefaction was like the gem of a wine is or the bud of a rase",
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          "ref": "1896, Benjamin B. Warfield, “The Right of Systematic Theology”, in The Presbyterian and Reformed Review, page 422:",
          "text": "All revelation is reduced to the patefaction of God in the series of His great redemptive acts, to the exclusion—entire or partial—of revelation by word, which is sometimes represented, indeed, as in the nature of the case impossible.",
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        "The act of opening, disclosing, or manifesting; open declaration."
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