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unvisard en · VERB

Pronunciation

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• /ʌnˈvɪzə(ɹ)d/

Etymology

From un- + visard.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) To take the vizard or mask from; to unmask.
   • Wee know where the ſhoo wrings you, you fret, and are gall’d at the quick, and O what a death it is to the Prelates to be thus un-viſarded, thus unca’sd,^([sic]) to have the Periwigs pluk’t off that cover your baldneſſe, your inſide nakedneſſe thrown open to publick view. 1641, [John Milton], Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: […] [Richard Oulton and Gregory Dexter] for Thomas Vnderhill, […], →OCLC, page 7:

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