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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

He marveled at the unfoldment of this new understanding.

From Ye of Little Faith by Roger Phillips Graham

For the natural world is the spiritual unfoldment made manifest by electric power.

From The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by George Woodward Warder

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.

From Farm Boys and Girls by William Arch McKeever

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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