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unˈshadow, v.
[un-2 4 b.]
trans. To free from shadow; fig. to disclose, reveal.
In quot. 1599 = shadow v. 7; perh. an error.
1550Thomas Ital. Dict., Sgombrare, to vnshadowe or leaue voide. 1595R. Barnfield Cynthia To Rdrs. (Arb.) 44, I will vnshaddow my conceit: being nothing else, but an imitation of Virgill. 1599R. Linche Anc. Fiction I iv, This picture of Honor..was oftentimes set forth with two wings on the shoulders thereof, intending & vnshadowing thereby, that honour and glorie doe as it were lend wings vnto men of vertue and merit. 1818Byron Let. to Moore 2 June, The dawn gleams over the Grand Canal, and unshadows the Rialto. 1821Southey Vis. Judgem. i. 51 To thy mortal sight shall the Grave unshadow its secrets. 1895A. Machen Three Impostors 93, I, too, burned with the lust of the chase, not pausing to consider that I knew not what we were to unshadow. 1926D. H. Lawrence David xv. 121 Is my heart fireless..? Kindler! it shall not be so! My heart shall shine to Thee, yea, unshadow itself. 1953A. Clarke Moment Next to Nothing ii. 41 All that men think of would be immaterial Could they but watch these women shadowing, Unshadowing themselves. |