Unvisor

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To remove or lift a visor from one's face.

    "The Prior with his silvery locks at the high altar stands ; The Prince in reverend posture bends, ungauntleted his hands ; And doffed the sword of Ravenspur, unvisored too his brow, The warrior of a hundred fields a lowly votary now !"

  2. 2
    To reveal; to unmask or unveil. broadly

    "His intrepid good sense confronts and unvisors a sophism, by whose authority soever it may be armed."

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Example

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"The Prior with his silvery locks at the high altar stands ; The Prince in reverend posture bends, ungauntleted his hands ; And doffed the sword of Ravenspur, unvisored too his brow, The warrior of a hundred fields a lowly votary now !"

Etymology

From un- + visor.

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