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unfoldment

unfoldment noun: unfolding.

Noun

unfoldment (countable and uncountable, plural unfoldments)

  1. unfolding
    • Even the diverse elements, the minute side-studies and the profuse comments, are all woven into the organic structure, and are essential to the unfoldment of the plot.1884, George Willis Cooke, George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy
    • Under the watchful care of Martha she flourished and was happy, her mother in little, a laughing whirlwind of tender flesh, tireless feet, dancing eyes, hair of sunlight that was darkening as she grew older, and a mind that seemed to him she called father a miracle of unfoldment.1903, Harry Leon Wilson, The Lions of the Lord

Examples of unfoldment in a sentence

  • It is that the phenomenon proceeds from, and is a necessary accompaniment of, the growth of human Consciousness itself - its growth, namely, through the three great stages of its unfoldment.1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 16:
  • In Vedic cosmology, as well as in the cosmology of the Dogon of West Africa, the universe is an egg that shatters as it expands to begin its career of unfoldment in time.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 9:

Forms of unfoldment

pluralunfoldments

Origin of unfoldment

From unfold + -ment.

Questions about unfoldment

What does unfoldment mean?
Unfoldment means unfolding.
How do you use unfoldment in a sentence?
It is that the phenomenon proceeds from, and is a necessary accompaniment of, the growth of human Consciousness itself - its growth, namely, through the three great stages of its unfoldment.
What part of speech is unfoldment?
Unfoldment is a noun.
What is the plural of unfoldment?
The plural of unfoldment is unfoldments.

Words near unfoldment in the dictionary

  1. unfoldest
  2. unfoldeth
  3. unfolding
  4. unfoldingly
  5. unfoldings
  6. unfoldment
  7. unfoldments
  8. unfoldome
  9. unfoldomes
  10. unfoldomics
  11. unfolds

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