Meaning of unvisor | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To remove or lift a visor from one's face.
2. To reveal; to unmask or unveil.
   broadly

Examples

“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 !”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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⟳.”

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