Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which unfolds.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, unfolds.
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- noun One who, or that which,
unfolds .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Imagine a----, first in his noblest hours, in the laboratory or the observatory -- an unfolder and discoverer -- and then on a sick bed, from the consequences of his own indiscretions.
The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 James Gillman
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Has such an unfolder of the mysteries of nature, though he may have forgotten his former self, ever noticed the early, obstinate, and unappeasable inquisitiveness of children upon the subject of origination?
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They say drink is a great unfolder of truth; if so, the old lawyer's sharp face betrayed that, in spite of all his past civility, he had not the kindest feeling in the world towards the Harper family.
Agatha's Husband A Novel Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1856
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The red and orange unfolder figurines will spill out of the tray into the garbage can.
Something Awful 2009
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I'll see the box in the closet with its cartoonish cover, an astrotrooper blasting an unfolder with a gyrojet rifle.
Something Awful 2009
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But as I prayed 'twas unfolder to me that the portent was no 'for yersel' but for her -- the puir weak hairt ye ha 'tee save. "
Dope Sax Rohmer 1921
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