Example Sentences

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All of the present was contained in embryonic infoldment in the past, and the past has contributed its results to the present.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)

"To unfold" means to open the folds of something--to turn them back, get at the processes of their infoldment.

From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.