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▪ I. disclosing, vbl. n.|dɪsˈkləʊzɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb disclose: a. Opening up, revelation, bringing to light; disclosure. b. Hatching. Also attrib.
1494Fabyan Chron. vii. ccxxii. 245 The forenamed .ii. erles were warned of disclosynge of this matyer. 1543Bale (title), Yet a course at the Romyshe Foxe. A dysclosynge or openynge of the manne of synne. 1586J. Hooker Girald. Irel. in Holinshed II. 21/1 The king..being in loue with the falcon, did yearelie at the breeding and disclosing time send thither for them. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. v. §3. 22 Being of so excellent use for the disclosing of nature. 1626― Sylva §759 The Distance..betweene the Egge Layed and the Disclosing or Hatching.
¶ predicatively for ‘in or a disclosing’ = ‘in process of disclosure’, ‘a-hatching’: thus simulating a neuter-passive use of the verb. See a prep.1 12.
1737G. Lillo Fatal Curiosity iii. 44 Heard you that? What prodigy of horror is disclosing? To render murther venial.
▪ II. disˈclosing, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That discloses or opens up: see the verb.
1730–46Thomson Autumn 1358 Through the disclosing deep Light my blind way. 1746–7Hervey Medit. (1818) 147 Like these disclosing gems under the powerful eye of day. 1892Pall Mall G. 27 Apr. 1/2 The forcible and disclosing coincidence to which we referred at the outset. |