unglossing

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noun

A detail that is made explicit through unglossing.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of ungloss
noununglossing (plural unglossings)

plural unglossings

  1. A detail that is made explicit through unglossing.
    1 more example

    I hadn't even realized what I had done in the original poems, but yes, I glossed over, and yes, made pretty. But then to ungloss, sort of like a poetic ungloss, I can think of fictional unglossings like Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina, but I can't think of a poetic unglossing of that kind of childhood narrative.

    2009, Kate Eichhorn, Heather Milne, Prismatic Publics
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APA

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Chicago

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