unrollmentn.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈrəʊlm(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˌənˈroʊlmənt/ The action or process of unrolling (literal & figurative).
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the world > space > extension in space > [noun] > unfurling or unfolding
unfolding1483
evolution1624
unrolling1648
unfurling1780
unlapping1809
unrollment1823
unfoldure1837
outrolling1860
outroll1891
1823 Edinb. Ann. Reg. 1821 14 262/1 The more perfect specimens [of manuscripts]..have undergone so great changes, as to render their entire unrollment nearly..impossible.
1878 G. D. Boardman Creative Week 124 You cannot unroll what was not inrolled... And yet these Gentlemen..confound Unrollment with transmutation.
1904 D. N. Carvalho 40 Centuries of Ink xxxii. 331 The following facts elicited by the unrollment of a mummy at Bristol, England, in 1853, were communicated to the Philosophical magazine.
2000 S. Benso Face of Things i. ii. 20 Merely rhetorical chatting in which the I folds upon itself in an unrollment of its own convictions.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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