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unfoldment

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[uhn-fohld-muhnt] / ʌnˈfoʊld mənt /

noun

  • unfoldments
    plural
  1. the process or act of unfolding; development.


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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

There is no limitation possible to the spirit, and so at various stages in its unfoldment the Human Spirit works with the other nature forces, according to the stage of intelligence which it has attained.

From The Rosicrucian Mysteries An Elementary Exposition of Their Secret Teachings by Max Heindel

As Carmen says, the infinite creative mind can never cease to express itself; creation can never cease; and creation is but the whole, complete revelation or unfoldment of infinite mind’s ideas.”

From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking

The elements for your spiritual unfoldment are constantly at work, and will continue to work out for you a rich reward far exceeding your most confident anticipations.

From A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead by C. G. (Carl Gustaf) Helleberg

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

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

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