unmaskern.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈmɑːskə/, /(ˌ)ʌnˈmaskə/, U.S. /ˌənˈmæskər/ A person who, or thing which, discloses or reveals something. Cf. unmask v.
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society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > [noun] > one who or that which discloses or reveals
bewrayerc1440
revelatorc1443
revealer1492
disclosera1513
detector1541
unmasker1605
dark lantern1616
unlocker1619
eye-opener1928
1605 C. Cornwallis Let. 10 July in E. Sawyer Mem. Affairs of State (1725) II. 89 Tyme the unmasker of all Feignings will discover the Truth.
1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 7 The great unmasker of the Trentine Councel.
1761 A. Bower Hist. Popes V. 18 He will not, I hope, take it amiss, if I distinguish him, in the Course of this Controversy, with the Name of the Unmasker.
1833 T. Carlyle Crit. & Misc. Ess. (1840) IV. 404 ‘Far from being modest,’ says this Unmasker, ‘he brags beyond expression’.
1884 Manch. Examiner 9 May 5/5 The first unmasker of the forgery.
1974 Musical Times May 411/2 Cicero..the unmasker of Catiline's plot against the Roman republic.
2012 Irish Daily Mail (Nexis) 14 Aug. 12 The astonishing levels of surveillance to which Andrews's unmasker had to resort..demonstrates just how difficult it is to make people accountable for content they post on the internet.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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