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
What are the best conditions for mind unfoldment?
From Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century by Edson, Milan C.
For the natural world is the spiritual unfoldment made manifest by electric power.
From The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by Warder, George Woodward
On the higher, broader plane of unselfishness, he must strive to develop new powers and new aspirations to aid him in making better conditions for a more perfect protection and unfoldment of human life.
From Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century by Edson, Milan C.
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 Putnam, Allen
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 Cawein, Julius Madison
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 Cawein, Madison J.
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 Whitman, Stephen French
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