unfoldment
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Such a wild smashing scene would ordinarily be saved for a climax, but here it is presented to give impetus to the whole unfoldment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2023
If there be a creative hand behind this universe, there must be a creative hand in its unfoldment and direction.
From Time Magazine Archive
The law of evolution or unceasing progression applies to all planets and in a degree of unfoldment according to the periodic duration of time of each.
From A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead by C. G. (Carl Gustaf) Helleberg
Life panorama, backward unfoldment of, 156; duration of, 153; importance of, 153, 158; insufficient, causes infant mortality, 177; sub-conscious memory, basis of, 154; terminated by collapse of vital body, 157.
From The Rosicrucian Mysteries An Elementary Exposition of Their Secret Teachings by Max Heindel
He marveled at the unfoldment of this new understanding.
From Ye of Little Faith by Roger Phillips Graham
Have I not told to her—living alone for her— Purposed unfoldments of love I had sown for her Here in the soil of my soul? their variety Endless; and ever she answered with piety.—
From Days and Dreams Poems by Madison J. Cawein
But that morning there had drifted through the city a message from the country—of a new spring, which would not be like nature's previous unfoldments, yet could not, for all its subtle differences, be denied.
From Sacrifice by Stephen French Whitman
They point both to extraordinary unfoldments within him, and to probable handlings and control of his outer form at times by some intelligence not his own.
From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam
Have I not told to her—living alone for her— Purposed unfoldments of deeds I had sown for her Here in the soil of my soul? their variety Endless—and ever she answered with piety.
From One Day & Another A Lyrical Eclogue by Julius Madison Cawein
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