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unglossing

unglossing is the present participle and gerund of ungloss.

Meaning of ungloss

Verb

ungloss (third-person singular simple present unglosses, present participle unglossing, simple past and past participle unglossed)

  1. To remove the gloss from; to make less glossy.
    • 'Twere good sport To prick them forward to the escalade, At stormy midnight from the soaking trench! It would ungloss the butterflies!1838, The Siege of Antwerp. A Historical Play. In Five Acts, page 25
  2. To reverse the process of glossing; to make explicit what has been glossed over.
    • Therefore, unless courts can "ungloss" the complete diversity and matter-in-controversy limitations of § 1332, some claims made by intervenors of right — those state-law claims that destroy complete diversity or fail to exceed $75,000 — are structurally incapable of being integrated into the...2002, Jay Tidmarsh, Roger H. Trangsrud, Complex Litigation: Problems in Advanced Civil Procedure, page 84

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Noun

unglossing (plural unglossings)

  1. A detail that is made explicit through unglossing.
    • I hadn't even realized what I had done in the original poems, but yes, I glossed over, and yes, made pretty. But then to ungloss, sort of like a poetic ungloss, I can think of fictional unglossings like Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina, but I can't think of a poetic unglossing of that kind...2009, Kate Eichhorn, Heather Milne, Prismatic Publics

Forms of unglossing

pluralunglossings

Questions about unglossing

What does unglossing mean?
Unglossing means a detail that is made explicit through unglossing.
What is unglossing the present participle and gerund of?
Unglossing is the present participle and gerund of ungloss.
What part of speech is unglossing?
Unglossing is a noun.
What is the plural of unglossing?
The plural of unglossing is unglossings.

Words near unglossing in the dictionary

  1. unglossaried
  2. unglossed
  3. unglosses
  4. unglossily
  5. unglossiness
  6. unglossing
  7. unglossings
  8. unglossy
  9. unglottalized
  10. unglove
  11. ungloved

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