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- verb Archaic form of
unmask .
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Examples
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"There stands he that governs Klosterheim by night!" thought every cavalier, as he endeavored to pierce the gloomy being's concealment with penetrating eyes, or, by scrutiny ten times repeated, to unmasque the dismal secrets which lurked beneath his disguise.
Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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"There stands he that governs Klosterheim by night!" thought every cavalier, as he endeavored to pierce the gloomy being's concealment with penetrating eyes, or, by scrutiny ten times repeated, to unmasque the dismal secrets which lurked beneath his disguise.
Memorials and Other Papers — Complete Thomas De Quincey 1822
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_ Tell me what did you in yonder House, and I'll unmasque.
The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664
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