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verb

Unfold v. t.

To open the folds of; to expand; to spread out; as, to unfold a tablecloth. "Unfold thy forehead gathered into frowns."

To open, as anything covered or close; to lay open to view or contemplation; to bring out in all the details, or by successive development; to display; to disclose; to reveal; to elucidate; to explain; as, to unfold one's designs; to unfold the principles of a science. "Unfold the passion of my love."

To release from a fold or pen; as, to unfold sheep.

Unfold v. i. To open; to expand; to become disclosed or developed. "The wind blows cold While the morning doth unfold."

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Etymology of 'Unfold'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Unfold" Quotes from Famous Books

... whole attention is held by that picture which portrays the destruction of Troy, so I will attempt to unfold ...

— The Satyricon, Complete • Petronius Arbiter

... sailors bold, Whose hearts are cast in honour's mould, While England's glory I unfold, ...

— From Powder Monkey to Admiral - A Story of Naval Adventure • W.H.G. Kingston

... as if overnight his schedule had again been put in good running order; for, overnight, spring had come, and that was what his schedule called for in Paris. The buds, which until now had hesitated to unfold, trembled forth almost before his eyes under the influence of a sun that this morning blazed in a turquoise sky. Perhaps they had hurried a ...

— The Triflers • Frederick Orin Bartlett

... who suffered and stood fast That Freedom might the weak uphold, And in men's ways of wreck and waste Justice her awful flower unfold; By all who out of grief and wrong In passion's art of noble song Made ...

— Poems of To-Day: an Anthology • Various

... fulfilled a propaedeutic office for Christianity. "As it had been intrusted to the Hebrews to preserve and transmit the heaven-derived element of the Monotheistic religion, so it was ordained that, among the Greeks, all seeds of human culture should unfold themselves in beautiful harmony, and then Christianity, taking up the opposition between the divine and human, was to unite both in one, and show how it was necessary that both should co-operate to prepare for the appearance of itself and the unfolding of what it contains."[859] During the period ...

— Christianity and Greek Philosophy • Benjamin Franklin Cocker

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