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unglossings

unglossings is the plural of unglossing.

Meaning of unglossing

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

Questions about unglossings

What is unglossings the plural of?
Unglossings is the plural of unglossing.

Words near unglossings in the dictionary

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

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