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Grammar : Verb
Spell : uhn-vey-ling
Phonetic Transcription : ʌnˈveɪ lɪŋ



Definition of unveiling

Origin :
  • 1590s, in reference to sight, "to make clear," from un- (2) + veil (v.). Sense of "to display or reveal" (something) is from 1650s. Related: Unveiled; unveiling.
  • verb reveal
Example sentences :
  • The meanings are in those forms already, else they could be no garment of unveiling.
  • Extract from : « A Dish Of Orts » by George MacDonald
  • The ceremony of unveiling the statue of Rhaetia was about to begin.
  • Extract from : « The Princess Virginia » by C. N. Williamson
  • "Too late," he uttered, and was unveiling his face when she sat up in bed with a scream.
  • Extract from : « Sacrifice » by Stephen French Whitman
  • And yet one must be a woman to feel what I feel to-day, in unveiling and adorning your beauty.
  • Extract from : « The Choice of Life » by Georgette Leblanc
  • May we venture to see there an unveiling of the divine heart?
  • Extract from : « Expositions of Holy Scripture » by Alexander Maclaren
  • The removal of these differences is just the unveiling of it, in which it at once comes to be and to be known.
  • Extract from : « Progress and History » by Various
  • Others are considerably taken back by the unveiling of Anderson.
  • Extract from : « The Loyalist » by James Francis Barrett
  • That unveiling did expose him to the stare of everybody waiting in the lobby.
  • Extract from : « Free Air » by Sinclair Lewis
  • The verses which follow were written for the unveiling of the statue, December 9, 1879.
  • Extract from : « Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday » by Various
  • Like every play of this period, it is the unveiling of a lie.
  • Extract from : « Figures of Several Centuries » by Arthur Symons

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