unravelment

noun

un·​ravelment

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: the act of unraveling or the state of being unraveled : denouement, disentanglement

he is a shrewd critic of historical ideas and an apt dialectician in the unravelment of their intention

—Irwin Edman

Word History

First Known Use

1705, in the meaning defined above

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