revel

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1. revel - Noun

2. revel - Verb

3. Revel - Proper noun

Meaning

See Reveal.

A feast with loose and noisy jollity; riotous festivity or merrymaking; a carousal.

To feast in a riotous manner; to carouse; to act the bacchanalian; to make merry.

To move playfully; to indulge without restraint.

To draw back; to retract.

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Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration. C. T. Studd

Sound loves to revel in a summer night. Edgar Allan Poe

It is so much easier to covet what one hasn't than to revel in what one has. Also, it is so much easier to be enthusiastic about what exists than about what doesn't. Max Beerbohm

We revel in the laxness of the path we take. Charles Baudelaire

I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself... Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life! Jessye Norman

In the Middle Ages people built cathedrals, where the whole town would get together and make a thing that's greater than any individual person could do and the society would kind of revel in that. We don't do that as much anymore, but in a sense this is kind of like building a cathedral. Hal Abelson

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