Meaning of ungloss | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To remove the gloss from; to make less glossy.
2. To reverse the process of glossing; to make explicit what has been glossed over.

Examples

“'Twere good sport To prick them forward to the escalade, At stormy midnight from the soaking trench! It would ungloss the butterflies!”

“Already death is busy at your roots, a bug-rite to ungloss you of green glamor”

“Rousseau's trees and leaves and branches are shiny-green enamel. Ungloss them. Smudge them black, the lion has finished eating the leopard, the stillness is eternal . . . that is my head.”

“Therefore, unless courts can "ungloss" the complete diversity and matter-in-controversy limitations of § 1332, some claims made by intervenors of right — those state-law claims that destroy complete diversity or fail to exceed $75,000 — are structurally incapable of being integrated into the federal case.”

“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.”

“The patient, in saying 'that's the strange thing' is making explicit the fact that, in selecting the possibility of disturbed sleeping habits as a manifestation of anxiety, the counsellor has correctly or legitimately used the documentary method. That is, the patient recognises that given an underlying pattern of anxiety, attempts to ungloss this pattern might involve the use of the documentary method of interpretation in order to suggest candidate unglosses, i.e., typical manifestations or appearances of such a pattern.”

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