unfoldment

[uhn-fohld-muhnt]

noun

plural

unfoldments 

1. the process or act of unfolding; development.

Other Word Forms

• self-unfoldment noun

Example Sentences

Such a wild smashing scene would ordinarily be saved for a climax, but here it is presented to give impetus to the whole unfoldment.

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That show was covered by the Chicago Daily News, with a headline quoting the eccentric but deeply religious artist: “My Drawings Are a Spiritual Unfoldment.”

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Wrote one Alan Wells of Cambridge, Massachusetts: “I realize it is none of my business, but is there nothing you can do to the atom’s nucleus but smash it? Divinity seems to think it wise to uncover the earth’s secrets a little at a time with sort of a loving unfoldment instead of smashing it all of a sudden just for the hell of it.”

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And then, they must allow no ordinary business concern about the farm home to stand in the way of her unfoldment in the direction of these higher ideals.

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As stated in Chapter II the most predominant interests in the young emerge in response to the unfoldment of instincts and the development of organic growths within.

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