Sense file
How the sense moved
The archive follows the dated record first, then reads the social or rhetorical pressure that hardened, softened, narrowed, or reversed the word.
Older meaning
Revelation or unveiling.
Modern meaning
Catastrophic end of the world.
Research lens
A valuable archive correction because the revealing or unveiling sense is often buried under disaster imagery.
Meaning trail
Root
uncovering
The base image is revelation.
Older sense
disclosure of hidden truth
A genre and a theological act.
Now
world-ending disaster
The spectacle swallowed the unveiling.