unfoldern.
One who, or that which, unfolds, in various senses of the word.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > [noun] > one who explains
expositora1340
expounitourc1380
undoer1382
expoundera1425
reader1440
declarera1527
looser1528
explainer1579
exponer1588
illustrator1598
clearer1599
explicator1611
unfolder1611
representer1642
dilucidator1689
unravellera1704
elucidator1715
exponent1812
explanator1858
transfuser1889
the world > space > extension in space > [noun] > unfurling or unfolding > one who
unfolder1797
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Expliqueur, an explicator, vnfolder, explainer.
1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 240 Himself was an accurate unfolder of truth.
1728 L. Theobald Double Falshood i. ii. 8 Is your Father yet moved in the Suit, who must be the prime Unfolder of this Business?
1797 Monthly Mag. 3 264 Both copyists and unfolders [of papyrus rolls] are injudiciously paid by the month.
1845 R. C. Trench Fitness Holy Script. vii. 129 The unfolder of all the nobler and higher life of the world.
1871 J. R. Macduff Memories of Patmos ix. 119 The sudden appearance..of the Unfolder of the roll.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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