unvisor

present singular third person unvisors · participle present unvisoring · participle past unvisored · past unvisored

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

   How he would have smitten Paynim with his sword, and then unvisored and held chivalrous interview with Saladin!

   1920, Popular Educator - Volume 38, page 444

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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 !

   1889, William Wheater, Some Historic Mansions of Yorkshire and Their Associations

   During each rehearsal, the unveiling (or more properly, the unvisoring) of the feminine face has been fatal to martial action; Artegall will not strike his revealed opponent.

   2001, Andrew Hadfield, Hadfield Andrew, The Cambridge Companion to Spenser, →ISBN, page 188

2. broadlyTo reveal; to unmask or unveil.

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

   1883, Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine - Volume 106, page 954

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   It was as if we had taken off something that had hindered our view of each other, like people who unvisored to talk more easily at a masked ball.

   1911, The Forum - Volume 45, page 506

   For when Henry Killigrew was come from the Queen of England to comfort her. . .this gentleman stranger's hap was to spill the play, and unvisor the disguising; for when he was, by the Queen's commandment, come to the Court, though...he did nothing hastily, yet he came in so unseasonably before the stage was prepared and furnished, that he found the windows open and the candles not lighted, and all the provisions for the play out of order.

   1930, Reginald Henry Mahon, The Tragedy of Kirk O' Field, page 169