unshroud
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]unshroud (third-person singular simple present unshrouds, present participle unshrouding, simple past and past participle unshrouded)
- (transitive) To remove a shroud from; to uncover.
- 1633, Phineas Fletcher, The Purple Island:
- At length the piercing sun his team unshrouds
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unshroud”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)